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anjolina wrote:
CLICK THIS SITES After complaining to Google about all the newsgroup spam that's generated using gmail / google groups, I received the following note: "Thank you for your note. This is an automated reply. If you're reporting a spam email with a Google return address, please be assured that it did not originate with Google. Google does not permit others to send unsolicited email through its mail servers. A number of unscrupulous businesses have sent out mass mailings with forged Google return addresses. Google is actively pursuing all available legal means to stop these miscreants from abusing our name and your inbox. We appreciate your understanding, and please accept our sympathies for the inconvenience this may have caused." Uh huh - sure.............. |
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PeterGriffin wrote:
After complaining to Google about all the newsgroup spam that's generated using gmail / google groups, I received the following note: "Thank you for your note. This is an automated reply. If you're reporting a spam email with a Google return address, please be assured that it did not originate with Google. Google does not permit others to send unsolicited email through its mail servers. A number of unscrupulous businesses have sent out mass mailings with forged Google return addresses. Google is actively pursuing all available legal means to stop these miscreants from abusing our name and your inbox. We appreciate your understanding, and please accept our sympathies for the inconvenience this may have caused." Uh huh - sure.............. The ONLY way to get effective action will be to organize a boycott of business that advertise on googlepages and blogspot. There should be a zero-tolerance policy for newsgroup spamming. |
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Mark Thorson wrote:
PeterGriffin wrote: After complaining to Google about all the newsgroup spam that's generated using gmail / google groups, I received the following note: "Thank you for your note. This is an automated reply. If you're reporting a spam email with a Google return address, please be assured that it did not originate with Google. Google does not permit others to send unsolicited email through its mail servers. A number of unscrupulous businesses have sent out mass mailings with forged Google return addresses. Google is actively pursuing all available legal means to stop these miscreants from abusing our name and your inbox. We appreciate your understanding, and please accept our sympathies for the inconvenience this may have caused." Uh huh - sure.............. The ONLY way to get effective action will be to organize a boycott of business that advertise on googlepages and blogspot. That can never be effective. There should be a zero-tolerance policy for newsgroup spamming. Then there's the real world... |
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Rod Speed wrote:
Mark Thorson wrote: The ONLY way to get effective action will be to organize a boycott of businesses that advertise on googlepages and blogspot. That can never be effective. There should be a zero-tolerance policy for newsgroup spamming. Then there's the real world... What I mean is contacting the advertisers and informing them of the existence of a boyott. That's poison to an advertising campaign. They will drop those advertising venues like a hot potato. There is no other effective defense than striking at the pocketbooks fueling the evil. |
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Mark Thorson wrote
Rod Speed wrote Mark Thorson wrote The ONLY way to get effective action will be to organize a boycott of businesses that advertise on googlepages and blogspot. That can never be effective. There should be a zero-tolerance policy for newsgroup spamming. Then there's the real world... What I mean is contacting the advertisers and informing them of the existence of a boyott. Wont work because they know that you cant enforce any purported boycott. That's poison to an advertising campaign. Nope, because they know that you cant enforce any purported boycott. They will drop those advertising venues like a hot potato. Fantasy. There is no other effective defense than striking at the pocketbooks fueling the evil. It isnt an effective defense either. |
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PeterGriffin wrote: anjolina wrote: CLICK THIS SITES After complaining to Google about all the newsgroup spam that's generated using gmail / google groups, I received the following note: "Thank you for your note. This is an automated reply. If you're reporting a spam email with a Google return address, please be assured that it did not originate with Google. Google does not permit others to send unsolicited email through its mail servers. A number of unscrupulous businesses have sent out mass mailings with forged Google return addresses. Google is actively pursuing all available legal means to stop these miscreants from abusing our name and your inbox. We appreciate your understanding, and please accept our sympathies for the inconvenience this may have caused." Uh huh - sure.............. That's funny because their message is greeted with "User does not exist to you" from my e-mail account. I built a very thorough Google filter using IP addresses from GMail spam headers. Google doesn't care and they're not going to fix it. Ask your Usenet provider to filter Google more heavily. Odds are they already have filters in place because Google Groups has been plagued by security holes and nonexistent maintenance. When a feed spams this heavily and ignores all complaints, they stop caring so much about false positives. |
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On Apr 19, 9:36 pm, Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
In article , PeterGriffin wrote: anjolina wrote: CLICK THIS SITES After complaining to Google about all the newsgroup spam that's generated using gmail / google groups, I received the following note: "Thank you for your note. This is an automated reply. If you're reporting a spam email with a Google return address, please be assured that it did not originate with Google. Google does not permit others to send unsolicited email through its mail servers. A number of unscrupulous businesses have sent out mass mailings with forged Google return addresses. Google is actively pursuing all available legal means to stop these miscreants from abusing our name and your inbox. We appreciate your understanding, and please accept our sympathies for the inconvenience this may have caused." Uh huh - sure.............. That's funny because their message is greeted with "User does not exist to you" from my e-mail account. I built a very thorough Google filter using IP addresses from GMail spam headers. Google doesn't care and they're not going to fix it. Ask your Usenet provider to filter Google more heavily. Odds are they already have filters in place because Google Groups has been plagued by security holes and nonexistent maintenance. When a feed spams this heavily and ignores all complaints, they stop caring so much about false positives. Sounds like what happened to myspace... 'cept they're doing something about it. -Steve |
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PeterGriffin wrote:
anjolina wrote: CLICK THIS SITES After complaining to Google about all the newsgroup spam that's generated using gmail / google groups, I received the following note: "Thank you for your note. This is an automated reply. If you're reporting a spam email with a Google return address, please be assured that it did not originate with Google. Google does not permit others to send unsolicited email through its mail servers. A number of unscrupulous businesses have sent out mass mailings with forged Google return addresses. Google is actively pursuing all available legal means to stop these miscreants from abusing our name and your inbox. We appreciate your understanding, and please accept our sympathies for the inconvenience this may have caused." Uh huh - sure.............. I'm not that bothered by spam on newsgroups as it's generally easy to spot and not open. But I suppose if it gets so bad that more than half the posts are spam, I'd get ****ed off. What does get my dander up are the increasing number of "junk faxes" received at my business every day. They just waste the paper and toner I buy and tie up our fax line. The US Federal Telecommunications act ("TCPA"), passed in 1991 and updated since then, expressly forbids the sending of junk faxes and even stipulates civil penalties for violations. I've got a feeling that with ever cheaper international telecommunication costs a lot of the junk faxes we get originate outside of the US of A, making it even closer to impossible to enforce the provisions of the TCPA against the faxers. Yet the junk faxes keep coming, and there's little we can do about it beause the people engaged in that kind of activity use dialing robots to call "every number" and note the ones where a fax machine answers, so they can get our fax number even if we're cautious about who we give it out to. Yes, I know I could use an office computer to receive faxes and not waste paper and toner on junk faxes by only printing the "real" ones, but I'd probably end up paying my office staff more for their time doing that than it's costing me in wasted paper and toner now. G Oh well, life's not fair, it never was and never will be. It's how you handle it that makes a difference. Jeff -- Jeffry Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE) The speed of light is 1.8*10^12 furlongs per fortnight. |
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:49:35 -0400, PeterGriffin
wrote: anjolina wrote: CLICK THIS SITES After complaining to Google about all the newsgroup spam that's generated using gmail / google groups, I received the following note: "Thank you for your note. This is an automated reply. If you're reporting a spam email with a Google return address, please be assured that it did not originate with Google. Google does not permit others to send unsolicited email through its mail servers. A number of unscrupulous businesses have sent out mass mailings with forged Google return addresses. Google is actively pursuing all available legal means to stop these miscreants from abusing our name and your inbox. We appreciate your understanding, and please accept our sympathies for the inconvenience this may have caused." Uh huh - sure.............. And what do you expect? Google is one of the most spamming sites of all. There was a time when google was a great search engine. These days all you get when doing a google search, all the top entries are doubleclick ads and ebay listings. I refuse to use google for anything these days. |
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