Re: Is it just me or is RMCR being spammed?

On Aug 13, 4:55 am, "Norman M. Schwartz" <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Dan Fowler" <dfow...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

news:46bfc502$0$30686$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>I just googled the newsgroups looking for articles on "newsgroup flooding".
One thread in news.admin.net-abuse.policy entitled "Ongoing flood attack
against sci.crypt" indicates that the sci.crypt newsgroup has been the
recipient of a high-volume of these messages, and that they are now being
cross-posted to these other groups (lucky us!). The random nature of the
subject and text makes them difficult to filter out. I haven't found an
effective remedy yet.

Wouldn't it be possible to send an email to "abuse@XXX" source of these
posts?

That'll just mean that people like a friend of mine, who runs a
legitimate, non-spamming web site, will get yet more emails from angry
and/or confused spam recipients. It's too easy to spam with systems
such as TOR. I just see receiving the occasional spam as the cost of
having free email/web services. If you use a fake email address in
posts to the net/usenet, and use filtering on your email client, plus
a service such as Gmail which filters the majority of spam away things
aren't so bad.

.

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