Re: SPAM is killing this newsgroup!

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 15:55:50 -0500, "Anthony Fremont"
<nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

MM wrote:
Is there a way to protect this group? I wonder why some groups
haven't been affected by spam yet while others are under attack..

/MM

In this particular case, I believe it's because a couple of regulars
couldn't resist playing with kooks. That attracted attention of some
computer savvy twats and then the SPAM came. You know the rest. It really
sucks, doesn't it?


Nope. I think you have misread your history.

First came ARPAnet, then MILnet, NFSnet and a couple of others, then
USENET and the rest of the precursors of internet. Next came WAIS,
gopher, etc. Then Hypertext. Then HTTP, Mosaic, and WWW. Then the
internet was opened to commercial access. In a few years email spam
appeared. Then Google bought the usenet archives and went into the
usenet provider business. Then the various free email accounts. Then
the various ploys to stop robots from getting accounts. Then the
spammers found google groups and understood each active group
represented hundreds to thousands of possible viewers. Thus the
spammers have found a way to make the most awesome distributed
hypercomputer (composed of humans trying to get some more cash) help
them defeat all the security methods of all the free account
providers. Thus our current problems.

IMNSHO
.

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