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  • [OT] Re: Shithead spammers en masse

    From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to Ion Saliu on Tue Jan 23 15:30:55 2024
    Ion Saliu wrote:

    The worst is yet to come, axiomatics. Google Groups (GG) had
    already imposed hurdles to posting via web: reCAPTCHA. The spammers
    took “countermeasures”. They moved their operations massively to
    Usenet. Them spammers open multiple accounts and send multiple
    spamming messages via Usenet.

    The spammers automate their operations with the help of spambots.
    No way can Usenet fight automated spamming. Usenet is DOOMED!

    Whilst, in the real world... people with newsreaders use filters and
    a kill-file to stop anything they don't want to see reaching their
    newsgroup feed.

    Of course, once you only needed an <@google.groups.com> filter and it
    stopped everything. Going forward it might mean different filters and
    more specific use of a kill-file... but as it is usually just ticking
    a box and clicking apply, it's not a big deal.

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Tue Jan 23 17:16:59 2024
    In article <nnd$565f7d29$294e9b34@608f55e5efd9fd0b>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    Ion Saliu wrote:

    The worst is yet to come, axiomatics. Google Groups (GG) had
    already imposed hurdles to posting via web: reCAPTCHA. The spammers
    took “countermeasures”. They moved their operations massively to
    Usenet. Them spammers open multiple accounts and send multiple
    spamming messages via Usenet.

    The spammers automate their operations with the help of spambots.
    No way can Usenet fight automated spamming. Usenet is DOOMED!

    Whilst, in the real world... people with newsreaders use filters and
    a kill-file to stop anything they don't want to see reaching their
    newsgroup feed.

    Of course, once you only needed an <@google.groups.com> filter and it
    stopped everything. Going forward it might mean different filters and
    more specific use of a kill-file... but as it is usually just ticking
    a box and clicking apply, it's not a big deal.

    And GG gets blocked by everybody else!
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