Damn I belong to a few newgroups and this one is getting 100x's the spam
others are getting. What gives???

Rich
--
"You can lead them to LINUX
but you can't make them THINK"

evodawg wrote:
Damn I belong to a few newgroups and this one is getting 100x's the spam
others are getting. What gives???

I haven't seen any of it lately. I've got a few simple filters going
but maybe my usenet feed provider is filtering it out for me as well.

Chris

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:15:38 GMT, evodawg wrote:

Damn I belong to a few newgroups and this one is getting 100x's the spam
others are getting. What gives???

Rich


I have added several new filters lately. I like to add new filters
that expire after 30 days, that way I usually have less than 25 active
filters. There's more spam than before because people respond to spam
(it works).

"evodawg" wrote in message
news:u3OMj.6845$bx3.2983@trnddc02...
Damn I belong to a few newgroups and this one is getting 100x's the spam
others are getting. What gives???


"Spam Happens"

evodawg wrote in news:u3OMj.6845$bx3.2983@trnddc02:

Damn I belong to a few newgroups and this one is getting 100x's the
spam others are getting. What gives???

Rich

Why all the SPAM complaint posts? Today I think there's been more
complaining about spam then spam itself!

Puckdropper
--
You can only do so much with caulk, cardboard, and duct tape.

To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm

On 14 Apr 2008 21:40:09 GMT, Puckdropper
wrote:

evodawg wrote in news:u3OMj.6845$bx3.2983@trnddc02:

Damn I belong to a few newgroups and this one is getting 100x's the
spam others are getting. What gives???

Rich

Why all the SPAM complaint posts? Today I think there's been more
complaining about spam then spam itself!

I'm sure your tongue-in-cheek marker was lit, but it's not even close.
Fewer than a dozen spam complaints. At least a couple of hundred
spams. No, I'm not kidding.

I'm starting to flood google abuse with copies of them. For those who
couldn't understand why I mess around with telemarketers, I want to
remind everyone that I'm retired and this is how I have fun.

wrote in message


I'm starting to flood google abuse with copies of them. For those who
couldn't understand why I mess around with telemarketers, I want to
remind everyone that I'm retired and this is how I have fun.

I'll bet that you're now in *their* spam filters!

wrote:

I'm sure your tongue-in-cheek marker was lit, but it's not even close.
Fewer than a dozen spam complaints. At least a couple of hundred
spams. No, I'm not kidding.

Odd. I've seen maybe 2 or 3 spams today. Either my filters are working
overtime, or else my usenet feed is filtering for me.

Chris

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:37:09 -0600, Dave Balderstone
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

I'm sure your tongue-in-cheek marker was lit, but it's not even close.
Fewer than a dozen spam complaints. At least a couple of hundred
spams. No, I'm not kidding.

I'm starting to flood google abuse with copies of them. For those who
couldn't understand why I mess around with telemarketers, I want to
remind everyone that I'm retired and this is how I have fun.


Google doesn't care. Get a dedicated newsreader that can filter.

If you insist on using Google Groups, well, have fun. There's nothing
anyone here can do to help you.

I'm not using google groups.

--
LRod

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Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999

http://www.woodbutcher.net
http://www.normstools.com

Proud participant of rec.woodworking since February, 1997

email addy de-spam-ified due to 1,000 spams per month.
If you can't figure out how to use it, I probably wouldn't
care to correspond with you anyway.

On Apr 14, 10:37 pm, Dave Balderstone
wrote:

Google doesn't care. Get a dedicated newsreader that can filter.

If you insist on using Google Groups, well, have fun. There's nothing
anyone here can do to help you.

I don't find it difficult to mentally filter the spam. I'm not overly
concerned with being the _first_ person to reply to a post, so I just
scan for threads with more than one post. That effectively eliminates
95% of the spam right there. But, whatever floats your boat...

R

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:56:21 -0600, Dave Balderstone
wrote:

In article , LRod
wrote:

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:37:09 -0600, Dave Balderstone
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

I'm sure your tongue-in-cheek marker was lit, but it's not even close.
Fewer than a dozen spam complaints. At least a couple of hundred
spams. No, I'm not kidding.

I'm starting to flood google abuse with copies of them. For those who
couldn't understand why I mess around with telemarketers, I want to
remind everyone that I'm retired and this is how I have fun.


Google doesn't care. Get a dedicated newsreader that can filter.

If you insist on using Google Groups, well, have fun. There's nothing
anyone here can do to help you.

I'm not using google groups.

I wasn't replying to you. What made you think I was?

I was "dicke" for that one post. See the path above.

I had reset my reply-to and from address when I sent my posts to
google abuse. I've been an Agent user (abundantly evident in the
headers in both this post and the "dicke" post) since whenever my
start date listed in my sig says I started here. with perhaps a short
period in the beginning when I posted from the web through a Purdue
University gateway.

So, yes, you were replying to me.

evodawg writes:
Damn I belong to a few newgroups and this one is getting 100x's the spam
others are getting. What gives???

Why? The spammers broke google's captcha and the bot engines are now
posting via google groups.

scott

Scott Lurndal wrote:

evodawg writes:
Damn I belong to a few newgroups and this one is getting 100x's the spam
others are getting. What gives???

Why? The spammers broke google's captcha and the bot engines are now
posting via google groups.

scott
Ok that explains it. I knew it had to be something like that.
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"You can lead them to LINUX
but you can't make them THINK"