Borked Pseudo Mailed <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote
in news:5a0510fb1d7a404ec6c3b290fc588778@pseudo.borke d.net:

>
> As most of you already know, there is a serious pandemic problem
> facing readers
> in news groups. There is a glut of spammers and sock puppets who seem
> to spam with impunity, many through the Google Groups web to usenet
> interface. I am talking about commercial spam, people selling things,
> people who want your money. I had always thought that posting
> commerical spam links to groups with charters against it was
> considered abuse, and could get the spammer's account cancelled. That
> no longer seems to be the case, at least not with Google.
>
> Complaints to <groups-abuse@google.com> seem to be ignored. You
> copy the complete
> spam message with headers and send it to them, with "Commercial SPAM
> link complaint" or other obvious wording in the subject title, but no
> bananas. The spam continues, and new Google sock puppets keep popping
> up like summer dandelions.
>
> A few months ago, I began tracking the IP addresses in the spam and
> sock puppet
> message headers, of all spam that has been disrupting our groups,
> noticing that some of the messages had been cross posted to other
> groups, and in very odd combinations.
>
> I began to notice that the Google IP addresses in the spam headers
> are coming
> from all over the place, from Australia, the US, UK, everywhere that
> Google Groups is accessible.
>
> I don't get it. I can't believe that spammers around the world
> could be working
> in cahoots, could they? Have spammers created a global usenet
> link-exchange program, where they agree to constantly create new
> Google sock puppets, each from their own injection points that Google
> identifies by IP block, then keep posting each other's spammy links in
> usenet messages, and maybe to proprietary Google web groups too?
>
> I know there are plenty of other spammy ISPs and what not. But how
> many other
> Google Groups are there? It's like they are working tag teams. One
> Google user posts a newbie message "I am new here," "I need
> information." Then the spammer responds right on que, usually with
> their own Google Groups account, or other usenet service.
>
> So I guess I have two questions. Is an international spammer's
> "link-exchange"
> program really going on here? And if it is, then is there any
> practical way to stop them? Maybe I'm just being paranoid, or don't
> fully understand how the whole Google Groups posting thing works.
> Spam sucks. Whatever happened to the UDP?
>
> Paranoid
>
>

r u plain stupid?

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