K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
> On Jan 1, 12:04 pm, "Maury Pepper" <mpepper_scram_s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
....
>>A Call to Arms...
>>Go tohttp://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.mumpsand
pick one or more
of
>>the offending messages. At the top of each message click on "More
options"
>>and then click "Re****t this message". I requested that all such
messages be
>>purged from our archives and hence filtered out. Perhaps more such
re****ting
>>will help.
>
>
> Been there done that. Many times. The garbage continues.
>
> The MI5 spammers and cigarette vendors have been tra****ng other Google
> groups as well. I have poked around, and Google's position evidently
> is that these are coming from Usenet groups that they don't control
> and they don't want to censor. There is speculation that Google wants
> to cause the old Usenet groups to die off in favor of Google hosted
> Google groups.
>
> -- Bhaskar
There are a few other options.
If my newsgroup reader (Netscape 7.2) sup****ted regular expressions in
filters, it would be relatively easy to get rid of these:
"M" [<punctuation> | <space>] "I" [<punctuation> | <space>] "5"
But I've noticed lately the originating eddresses seem to be from one of
lycos.com, bigfoot.com, or gmail.com domains. It's easy to set up a
filter to reject any posting from any of those domains. Of course,
there's the risk of missing legitimate postings, but given the current
S/N ration in this group, I'm willing to take that risk.
Another option is to re****t (forward) these postings to
{help,sysadmin,admin,suppot,abuse,spam}@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
hope they kill those accounts and prevent whoever it is from ever
obtaining another of their accounts (though I'm not sure that's possible).
If this list moved to a group with some control over who could post, I'd
follow it there.
Bob
lidral at alum dot mit dot edu
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