Le 18/02/2024 à 19:36, Richard Harnden a écrit :
They stopped new posts from some, but not all, groups.
They have promised to depeer themselves completely on the 22nd.
Which means all the spam will move to those servers that handle binaries
- simply because those admins either don't care, or won't notice because
then increase in bandwidth is basically zero for them.
Spammers will have to pay this servers to post spam which will be almost >useless regarding to usenet population, and even the configuration will be >harder to understand for them, I don't think they still have bots designed >for usenet. So I think there will be very few of them, even legit users
who have been told for weeks to use something else than Google struggle
with it, so we can hope that it will be almost zero.
Spammers will have to pay this servers to post spam which will be
almost useless regarding to usenet population, and even the
configuration will be harder to understand for them, I don't think
they still have bots designed for usenet. So I think there will be
very few of them, even legit users who have been told for weeks to
use something else than Google struggle with it, so we can hope that
it will be almost zero.
In just 1 group (comp.lang.lisp) in the last 2 days I see the following spam posts not from googlegroups :
<ee4tsi5s9iklcr6eu3abk9bi0lu174tc8r@4ax.com>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.excel,microsoft.public.mac.office.word
,microsoft.public.word.vba.beginners,microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
,soc.culture.punjab,microsoft.public.platformsdk.security,comp.lang.lisp
,microsoft.public.windows.server.networking,comp.lang.perl.misc
,dbase.programming
That why I'm filtering the Path : news.xlned.com
news.xlned.com is also listed as a source of interest on E-S.
Even more interesting is abavia.com, who have been sending up to
3000 spam articles per day for more than 3 months. So far they
have only focussed on the German hierarchy, but I'm sure this can
be changed any time and their spam is much more sophisticated than
the Google spam we have seen so far.
Thus spake "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news>
Ray Banana wrote:
news.xlned.com is also listed as a source of interest on E-S.That explains it!!! I was using an Abavia re-seller from the
Even more interesting is abavia.com, who have been sending up to
3000 spam articles per day for more than 3 months. So far they
have only focussed on the German hierarchy, but I'm sure this can
be changed any time and their spam is much more sophisticated than
the Google spam we have seen so far.
Netherlands and anything I replied to with a lot of cross-posts
'disappeared' (as in, caught in a spam filter somewhere). Some of my
own posts never made it through if they were cross-posted and/or
contained URL links.
If these were false positives, I would appreciate a couple of M-IDs to double-check.
Ray Banana wrote:
news.xlned.com is also listed as a source of interest on E-S.That explains it!!! I was using an Abavia re-seller from the
Even more interesting is abavia.com, who have been sending up to
3000 spam articles per day for more than 3 months. So far they
have only focussed on the German hierarchy, but I'm sure this can
be changed any time and their spam is much more sophisticated than
the Google spam we have seen so far.
Netherlands and anything I replied to with a lot of cross-posts
'disappeared' (as in, caught in a spam filter somewhere). Some of my
own posts never made it through if they were cross-posted and/or
contained URL links.
I didn't realise Abavia were irresponsible.
Ray Banana wrote:
news.xlned.com is also listed as a source of interest on E-S.
Even more interesting is abavia.com, who have been sending up to
3000 spam articles per day for more than 3 months. So far they
have only focussed on the German hierarchy, but I'm sure this can
be changed any time and their spam is much more sophisticated than
the Google spam we have seen so far.
That explains it!!! I was using an Abavia re-seller from the
Netherlands and anything I replied to with a lot of cross-posts
'disappeared' (as in, caught in a spam filter somewhere). Some of my
own posts never made it through if they were cross-posted and/or
contained URL links.
I didn't realise Abavia were irresponsible.
Thus spake "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news>
Ray Banana wrote:
news.xlned.com is also listed as a source of interest on E-S.
Even more interesting is abavia.com, who have been sending up to
3000 spam articles per day for more than 3 months. So far they
have only focussed on the German hierarchy, but I'm sure this
be changed any time and their spam is much more
sophisticated than the Google spam we have seen so far.
That explains it!!! I was using an Abavia re-seller from the
Netherlands and anything I replied to with a lot of cross-posts 'disappeared' (as in, caught in a spam filter somewhere). Some
of my own posts never made it through if they were cross-posted
and/or contained URL links.
If these were false positives, I would appreciate a couple of
M-IDs to double-check.
In article <oIjzxAtgBbn69HaNe872eF2VJSE@jntp>,
Eric M <conanospamic@gmail.com> wrote:
Le 18/02/2024 à 19:36, Richard Harnden a écrit :
They stopped new posts from some, but not all, groups.
They have promised to depeer themselves completely on the 22nd.
Which means all the spam will move to those servers that handle binaries >>> - simply because those admins either don't care, or won't notice because >>> then increase in bandwidth is basically zero for them.
Spammers will have to pay this servers to post spam which will be almost
useless regarding to usenet population, and even the configuration will be >> harder to understand for them, I don't think they still have bots designed >> for usenet. So I think there will be very few of them, even legit users
who have been told for weeks to use something else than Google struggle
with it, so we can hope that it will be almost zero.
almost 0 being the key.
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