Re: can we fight the spam?

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Ross A. Finlayson wrote:

george wrote:
Is there any mode or channel of effective complaint to google
about the spam here? I have been reporting/complaining
about individual messages but I am 1 person and am getting
ignored.

Hi George,

I wrote a program that is collecting the spams coming through
googlegroups, and then it posts them through the abuse report interface on:
http://groups.google.com/support/bin/request.py?page=&contact_type=abuse_legal_iss

and I'm not sure if it does any good. I don't know if they're replying
to those reports because I put the spammer's email address in the report.

If you'd like I'll post each complaint with your e-mail address, then at
least on your behalf will have been sent around 1000 complaints.

Ross, for many like OP, I'd like to put together a report on what news
servers and what news readers are needed and where to find them, so they
can set themselves up with a functional news group interface that will
allow them to filter out spam, keyword by keyword, or like more and more
who are fed up with Google groups, simply block all posts from Google
groups. Are you willing to help?

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