Re: China Travel Discussion List

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:21:11 +0200, Alfred Molon
<alfred_molon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <rdb2b41j6qg41ef3119km5ghf1e2k49hpq@xxxxxxx>, Chris Blunt
says...

As if reporting to his ISP would do any good anyway. How many
thousands of off-topic posts get uploaded every day? Does anyone
really believe that ISP's have the time and resources to investigate
every case like this?

That depends. If Peter were using a free Usenet provider, they would act
promptly. I have reported many such cases in the past and always
received a prompt answer that the wrongdoer's account had been deleted.

And no doubt the spammer opened another free account within a few
minutes of the one you reported being cancelled.

Unfortunately, with the way the internet is organised today, there's
very little that can be done about these spammers other than to
develop your own filtering system to try to minimise the amount that
reaches your own computer. Reporting it is a complete waste of time.
If it were that simple we wouldn't be seeing the huge amounts of spam
clogging up everyone's mailbox that we do.

Chris
.

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