Re: Idiot spam attack on sci.lang

On Jan 25, 6:34 am, mb <azyth...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 24, 4:35 am, richard01 <richardparke...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...

Google Groups and Usenet have got to get their acts together to stop
this stuff. (Usenet not so much because they don't make any money from
it, but Google? - certainly).

And what exactly are you gonna do about that, and how?

When have you been appointed judge and censor of what is allowed and
what not?
Since when has Google, or anyone, a right to censor anything?

The idea of defending this sporge-flooder on some sort of free speech
grounds seems totally misguided. The sporger has no opinions or ideas
to express. He is trying to prevent such expression.

Go get a provider who you'll pay to screen out what you don't like and
leave the rest of the people alone.

That sounds like a fine idea. And certainly many people in discussions
like this talk as if they had some setup by means of which they did
not have to view any of this. But for technically unsophisticated home
users, it is not such a simple matter. I have no idea what providers
might exist within my area who would screen out such stuff, or how I
would define "what I don't like" so that they could screen it. Some
practical advice (without condescension or abuse if possible) would be
welcome.

Looking on both Google Groups and Netscape, it appears to me as if the
post to which I am replying, and its immediate followup, were the
last legitimate sci.lang posts to appear. That was more than six hours
ago. Meanwhile 200 or so pseudo-threads have been posted, almost all
sporge. Have those more fortunately positioned seen the same? At this
rate, it is hardly worth anyone's time to pick through all the crap to
find real discussions. Yet I do not like the idea of sci.lang or any
other group being destroyed by this sociopath. I accept that it is not
possible to get at the source. So is there any other way we can carry
on in spite of it?

Ross Clark
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