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  • COMP LANG FORTH: no pilot on command

    From Marc Petremann@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 3 06:33:44 2023
    Hello,
    COMP LANG FORTH has been polluted by massive spam for almost two weeks. Obviously, there is no longer anyone in charge to delete these more than unwanted messages!
    So I took the initiative to open a COMP LANG FORTH group on Facebook.
    You may be allergic to FACEBOOK. It's your right.
    but at least we can moderate the publications.
    Link to this brand new group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/complangforth
    See you soon on this new group.

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  • From minforth@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 3 14:28:47 2023
    Don't forget to invite Hugh!

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  • From David Schultz@21:1/5 to Marc Petremann on Fri Nov 3 10:45:20 2023
    On 11/3/23 8:33 AM, Marc Petremann wrote:
    Hello,
    COMP LANG FORTH has been polluted by massive spam for almost two weeks. Obviously, there is no longer anyone in charge to delete these more than unwanted messages!

    That isn't how Usenet works. There was never someone in charge.

    In this case it appears to be a single bad actor abusing Google Groups.
    Which isn't completely inactive. One other newsgroup that I read was hit
    far harder but has now been set as read only over at Google Groups. So
    no more posts from there.

    That shut off the flood of spam in that group at least.

    So I took the initiative to open a COMP LANG FORTH group on Facebook.
    You may be allergic to FACEBOOK. It's your right.
    but at least we can moderate the publications.

    There is, or at least was, such a thing as a moderated newsgroup. They
    tend to have the word "moderated" in the group name.


    --
    http://davesrocketworks.com
    David Schultz

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to David Schultz on Fri Nov 3 19:36:45 2023
    On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 10:45:20 -0500
    David Schultz <david.schultz@earthlink.net> wrote:

    On 11/3/23 8:33 AM, Marc Petremann wrote:
    Hello,
    COMP LANG FORTH has been polluted by massive spam for almost two weeks. Obviously, there is no longer anyone in charge to delete these more than unwanted messages!

    That isn't how Usenet works. There was never someone in charge.

    No but some Usenet feeds are filtered. Such as the one I'm using
    (it's Eternal-September for those who can't read headers), and I'm very
    happy that it is.

    In this case it appears to be a single bad actor abusing Google Groups.
    Which isn't completely inactive. One other newsgroup that I read was hit
    far harder but has now been set as read only over at Google Groups. So
    no more posts from there.

    That shut off the flood of spam in that group at least.

    So I took the initiative to open a COMP LANG FORTH group on Facebook.
    You may be allergic to FACEBOOK. It's your right.
    but at least we can moderate the publications.

    There is, or at least was, such a thing as a moderated newsgroup. They
    tend to have the word "moderated" in the group name.



    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From dxf@21:1/5 to John on Sat Nov 4 14:20:05 2023
    On 4/11/2023 6:36 am, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 10:45:20 -0500
    David Schultz <david.schultz@earthlink.net> wrote:

    On 11/3/23 8:33 AM, Marc Petremann wrote:
    Hello,
    COMP LANG FORTH has been polluted by massive spam for almost two weeks.
    Obviously, there is no longer anyone in charge to delete these more than unwanted messages!

    That isn't how Usenet works. There was never someone in charge.

    No but some Usenet feeds are filtered. Such as the one I'm using
    (it's Eternal-September for those who can't read headers), and I'm very
    happy that it is.

    Usenet could be considered an informal collective in which each provider
    is in command and responsible for what it injects.

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  • From llp@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 5 22:46:26 2023
    Kerr-Mudd, John a présenté l'énoncé suivant :
    On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 10:45:20 -0500
    David Schultz <david.schultz@earthlink.net> wrote:

    On 11/3/23 8:33 AM, Marc Petremann wrote:
    Hello,
    COMP LANG FORTH has been polluted by massive spam for almost two weeks.
    Obviously, there is no longer anyone in charge to delete these more than >>> unwanted messages!

    That isn't how Usenet works. There was never someone in charge.

    No but some Usenet feeds are filtered. Such as the one I'm using
    (it's Eternal-September for those who can't read headers), and I'm very
    happy that it is.

    Yes, me too with my server.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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