Re: Report this spam to: groups-abuse@google.com

On 2006-04-19, Simon Scott <simon_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

1) google groups accounts are easy to get, in any number

could you get two million before this time next week?

2) pulling a google groups account will result in it quickly being replaced
by another

possibly, but if the spammer is merely misguided rather than malicious
the second account won't be misused lik the first.

3) The damage done by spam is limited to the bandwidth and screen realestate
waste by downloading the header (since noone actually clicks on the crap
anyway)

not true, it cause this thread...

4) Closing the account doesnt reduce (3), nor does it reduce the amount of
spam

yeah but if you tell someone who cares about the spam it could make a
difference. if instead you whine to all of usenet you are no better than
the spammer.

5) Cancelling the spam doesnt reduce (3), as by the time they get around to
it everyone has downloaded the header anyway, and a fair number of usenet
servers dont honour cancellations anyway.

Not defeatist - realistic. Since I actually understand the architecture of
usenet, I know that it is impossible to stamp out, or even measurably
reduce, the amount of spam on usenet.


Impossible for one person to reduce measurably recduce the spam in all of
usenet maybe, OTOH, that guy who was filling ABSE with crap binaries stopped
and "sir jean-paul turcaud" is gone from aus.* those two arguably were
stopped not by people whining in the newsgroup, but by people informing the
poster's usenet provider.

Like measuring crime prevention, measuring the change in spam volume
caused by any strategy is difficult...

Bye.
Jasen
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