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.
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.
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.
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.
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