Subj : Re: Spam To : All From : Nigel Reed Date : Sat Dec 09 2023 07:05 am On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:28:55 -0600 "ogg" (21:2/147) wrote: > On 30 Nov 2023, Blue White said the following... > > BW> -=> Avon wrote to Blue White <=- > BW> > BW> Av> yes it seems like it's a bigger issue than just a few > BW> Av> newsgroups sadly > BW> > BW> If you are on Dovenet, you can see that some of them are even > BW> posting in the Synchronet support newsgroup/echo. So, yes, > BW> someone is busy at work. > BW> > BW> The weird thing is that posts seem mostly unrelated. Were > BW> before it was sex or viagra, it is now on all sorts of topics, > BW> and sometimes a few of them even manage to be somewhat on topic. > BW> :O > BW> > BW> Aside from being annoying, it is difficult to determine the > BW> endgame with these. > > I was reading the alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent newsgroup > this morning and it was reported that some are seeing a significant > decrease in google groups spam. They are thinking that Google itself > has taken some sort of action. But the truth is they will just move > on to other areas. It's a never ending battle! Once very nice usenet admin has a script that captures a lot of the googlegroups spam and publishes the articles to news/lists.filters - other usenet admins can use a script to read this group and automatically cancel the messages. I'm seeing grep Cancelling news|grep googlegroups|wc -l 83672 And that's in 7 hours. -- End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23 --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux * Origin: End Of The Line BBS - endofthelinebbs.com (21:2/101) .