On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 10:33:31 AM UTC-7, Lori wrote:
Is there a reason sex for sale seems to show up on this site regularly?
There is no logic to it. It likely started when someone who participated in the group got infected by a virus that tracked their activitiy and harvested their address book to identify further targets. Most of the posts are actually coming from the same
source, with the originating email addresses spoofed with harvested addresses to appear like the messages are coming from different people. Unfortunately, these target lists are bought and sold, so once a group gets on the target lists it stays on them
forever.
And Google is unwilling to do anything about it. They won't block the originating addresses (which wouldn't help much anyhow because the originating addresses are spoofed) and they won't institute a spam filter because they put that responsibility on
group-owners, but there is no such thing for soc.gen.med because Google decided to just pretend that Usenet groups were just like the groups people create directly on Google. The only exceptions are 1) blatantly hateful content, which is only addressed
by post-moderation (the posts are deleted from the group months afterwards - this is what happens with some of the Italian 'everyone in the would should know that this person I don't like is a child molester' messages that sometimes appear here); and 2)
when a group becomes so toxic that Google pulls the plug and entirely removes the group from their interface.
So, the takehome is that we are stuck with it. All you can do is use the tools within your software interface to not see the spam. (And to post relavant material, so the sex spam won't be as predominant).
taf
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