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  • How do we stop the spam?

    From lharris428@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 10 15:34:13 2022
    This news group is getting spammed? How do we stop this?

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  • From Tomas Slavotinek@21:1/5 to lharr...@gmail.com on Mon Jul 11 01:40:46 2022
    On 11.07.2022 0:34, lharr...@gmail.com wrote:
    This news group is getting spammed? How do we stop this?

    Go to Google Groups and mark the posts as spam. Report the email
    accounts to Google for ToS violation. Maybe they will do something about
    it if enough people complain... but I have my doubts as it can be rather difficult to fight bots, even if one actually wants to.

    And it's not just this NG either.

    If you are using an email client/newsreader, you can setup a kill file
    or message filter to get rid of the posts on your end.

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  • From Tomas Slavotinek@21:1/5 to gfretwell@aol.com on Mon Jul 11 16:39:43 2022
    On 11.07.2022 16:22, gfretwell@aol.com wrote:
    On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 01:40:46 +0200, Tomas Slavotinek
    <slavotinek@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 11.07.2022 0:34, lharr...@gmail.com wrote:
    This news group is getting spammed? How do we stop this?

    Go to Google Groups and mark the posts as spam. Report the email
    accounts to Google for ToS violation. Maybe they will do something about
    it if enough people complain... but I have my doubts as it can be rather
    difficult to fight bots, even if one actually wants to.

    And it's not just this NG either.

    If you are using an email client/newsreader, you can setup a kill file
    or message filter to get rid of the posts on your end.

    These pretty much have to be stopped at the originating news service
    and providers like Eternal September do not monitor the "abuse" Email.
    There has been a spoofer on another group I follow forging the info of regular posters and sending really nasty stuff. ET has ignored
    complaints and that poster is still active. I doubt they can do
    anything about a spam bot that changes names with every post. Filters
    don't work either unless you want to block all posters from that
    source. .

    Yeah. Though the posts are actually really easy to filter out:

    email: hesterholt[N]@gmail.com where [N] is a number
    name: hester holt
    body: URL to the following domain: booksca.ca

    Of course they can easily change the name/email and use bitly or
    something similar to change the URL, but so far they have been pretty consistent.

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  • From gfretwell@aol.com@21:1/5 to slavotinek@gmail.com on Mon Jul 11 10:22:54 2022
    On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 01:40:46 +0200, Tomas Slavotinek
    <slavotinek@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 11.07.2022 0:34, lharr...@gmail.com wrote:
    This news group is getting spammed? How do we stop this?

    Go to Google Groups and mark the posts as spam. Report the email
    accounts to Google for ToS violation. Maybe they will do something about
    it if enough people complain... but I have my doubts as it can be rather >difficult to fight bots, even if one actually wants to.

    And it's not just this NG either.

    If you are using an email client/newsreader, you can setup a kill file
    or message filter to get rid of the posts on your end.

    These pretty much have to be stopped at the originating news service
    and providers like Eternal September do not monitor the "abuse" Email.
    There has been a spoofer on another group I follow forging the info of
    regular posters and sending really nasty stuff. ET has ignored
    complaints and that poster is still active. I doubt they can do
    anything about a spam bot that changes names with every post. Filters
    don't work either unless you want to block all posters from that
    source. .

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to lharr...@gmail.com on Mon Jul 11 20:52:28 2022
    lharr...@gmail.com <lharris428@gmail.com> wrote:
    This news group is getting spammed? How do we stop this?

    ALL newsgroups are getting spammed. :(
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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Ant on Mon Jul 11 20:29:36 2022
    On 7/11/22 7:52 PM, Ant wrote:
    ALL newsgroups are getting spammed. :(

    No, that's not true.

    There are a lot of newsgroups that are getting spammed. But definitely
    not all of them are.



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  • From schimmi@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Tue Jul 12 11:22:10 2022
    Reporting and not replying to it, I guess.
    Grant Taylor schrieb am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2022 um 04:29:10 UTC+2:
    On 7/11/22 7:52 PM, Ant wrote:
    ALL newsgroups are getting spammed. :(
    No, that's not true.

    There are a lot of newsgroups that are getting spammed. But definitely
    not all of them are.



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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to schimmi on Tue Jul 12 15:59:23 2022
    On 7/12/22 12:22 PM, schimmi wrote:
    Reporting and not replying to it, I guess.

    It depends on where the spam is coming from.

    IMHO the smaller text only public news servers & operators /try/ to keep
    their servers clean.

    Obviously sometimes some user manages to get through and do something.
    But the responsible newsmasters respond quickly and take action to stop
    spam originating from their server(s) / network(s).

    Sadly, it's the bigger players that tend to not care about spam.



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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 13 18:32:58 2022
    Am Montag, 11. Juli 2022, um 10:22:54 Uhr schrieb gfretwell@aol.com:

    These pretty much have to be stopped at the originating news service
    and providers like Eternal September do not monitor the "abuse" Email.

    Really?
    They say that the fight spam and delete accounts posting it. https://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=abuse#Spamming

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 13 18:33:39 2022
    Am Montag, 11. Juli 2022, um 20:29:36 Uhr schrieb Grant Taylor:

    There are a lot of newsgroups that are getting spammed. But
    definitely not all of them are.

    Mostly English-language newsgroups are being spammed. Others aren't
    that much affected.
    Most spam comes from Google Groups.

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  • From gfretwell@aol.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 14 02:05:10 2022
    On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:32:58 +0200, Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de>
    wrote:

    Am Montag, 11. Juli 2022, um 10:22:54 Uhr schrieb gfretwell@aol.com:

    These pretty much have to be stopped at the originating news service
    and providers like Eternal September do not monitor the "abuse" Email.

    Really?
    They say that the fight spam and delete accounts posting it. >https://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=abuse#Spamming

    They say they immediately ban forgers too but they don't.

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  • From schimmi@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Fri Jul 15 12:25:10 2022
    Maybe, but that's not what I've meant in first place. We have 2 Threads open with responses to these spam messages from this newsgroup, showing these spammers they hit some active addresses.

    Grant Taylor schrieb am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2022 um 23:58:57 UTC+2:
    On 7/12/22 12:22 PM, schimmi wrote:
    Reporting and not replying to it, I guess.
    It depends on where the spam is coming from.

    IMHO the smaller text only public news servers & operators /try/ to keep their servers clean.

    Obviously sometimes some user manages to get through and do something.
    But the responsible newsmasters respond quickly and take action to stop
    spam originating from their server(s) / network(s).

    Sadly, it's the bigger players that tend to not care about spam.
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  • From Tomas Slavotinek@21:1/5 to lharr...@gmail.com on Tue Aug 9 01:16:50 2022
    Hm, either they have no more books to advertise or somebody got rid of
    em. -knock knock-

    Or maybe it was the general lack of activity what made them ignore this NG.

    We shall see...

    On 11.07.2022 0:34, lharr...@gmail.com wrote:
    This news group is getting spammed? How do we stop this?

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  • From IBMMuseum@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 9 16:28:29 2022
    Or maybe it was the general lack of activity what made them ignore this NG.

    Newsgroups in general aren't active much now - I think he finally got blocked.

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