Re: Boy this place is certainly getting flooded ...

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On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:24:41 -0500, in rec.photo.digital Jim Townsend
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HEMI-Powered wrote:

... by commercial spammers! My killfile finger is working overtime to
try to control it, but it is hopeless. I also think it's hopeless to
try abuse reports as spammers seldom use the same nym or M.O. plus they
usually have redirected their posts to make it extremely difficult to
report them to their real NSPs. Oh, well.


99% of the spam is coming from Google Groups. Google has no plans to
do anything about it. (I suspect they encourage spam, but I can't
prove it). It's only going to get worse.

Set your news reader filter to reject all posts from Google Groups. You
can do this by filtering on the 'message-ID' line in the header.

Once Google Groups is gone, then the spam will be gone too.

A growing number of us have completely shut out Google Groups. I've
done this and I haven't seen a spam post in rec.photo.digital for over
two days.

Filtering the spam works on the symptom, not the problem. Have any of you
making all these complaints made a move to deny your posts to the archive?
They do honor the "X-No-Archive:yes" header. If enough folks did this it
MIGHT get their attention.

only works for news servers that honour the "X-No-Archive:yes" tag, a few
don't
and I'm curious, how does using the X-No-Archive tag stop spammers ??

--
"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color."
Don Hirschberg


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