On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:33:53 -0800, Stuart & Kathryn Fields wrote:
What is it about this news group that attracts the nuts and spammers? I've
been accumulating blocked senders to eliminate the penis and tennis shoe ads
as well as the become a millionaire ads and my blocked sender list has about
150 entries. For some reason, rec.crafts.metalworking seems to attract
more crap than other NGs that I monitor.

Because, for quite some time, regulars here toyed with the muslim
spammers/trolls instead of just blocking them. So they've targeted with
more. I pointed out misc.emerg-services serveral times as an example of
groups which were laid waste for _years_ because of people who wanted a
harmless dialog with trolls/kooks, but, well, it could be worse. But it
could be better.

For what it's worth, all I see lately are the nym-shifters. Anything
crossposted to more than 2 groups, is in my killfile. I use
news.individual.net as a newsfeed (15 bux a year or so), and they filter
out obvious spam as well. So it's not all that bad, if you go through a
few steps.

Might have been easier not to have encouraged them a year or three ago.