Re: Idiot spam attack on sci.lang

On Jan 31, 8:16 pm, António Marques <m...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
Imagine that a criminal could flood a bank with counterfeit money,
and do so in the name and using the accounts of the regular customers
- that bank would have a real problem.

Imagine that real money didn't have security features to distinguish it
from counterfeit money. That's exactly the situation Google is in.
Google is your bank - but it isn't your Central European Bank, it
doesn't control the currency, it can only store it. There is nothing
Google can do.

Google could discern between Peter T. Daniels the genuine
and Peter T. Daniels the fake. You saw the fake message
in his name yesterday, in another thread, even I thought it
was a message by the real Peter.

Now some providers have anti-spam filters which are able to determine
when a message is *likely* spam. But those filters are very fallible,
both marking as spam messages which are not, and failing to mark
messages which are, so they can't be fully depended on.

Keeping away the spam is one thing, separating fake posters
from real posters is another thing.

In this particular case, I suppose some providers may just ignore
messages sent through dizum.com - but then, legitimate users of that
service won't be happy.

Google must solve their problem, the steps they took until now are
not sufficient. One step they took was closing the account - note
well: the free account that runs under the name of profile - of the
MI5Vic... spammer.

But they didn't close anything. They just don't offer anymore the
possibility to look up MI5Vic's 'profile'. Google doesn't run profiles -
when you ask to see someone's profile, it just runs a search for that
person's e-mail, and offers you a page with the results. It's just the
same as when you look up 'hamburger' in a web search, and it gives you a
list of the pages which mention hamburgers.

If you find an old message by the MI5Vic... spammer and
look up his profile, Google says the account has been banned
(their words, both "account" and "banned"), and there is no
profile available.

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A free Usenet account - so you have an account at teranews?
what does this mean?
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