Re: WHY HAS THIS SITE BECOME SUCH A SPAM TARGET???

David R Tribble wrote (in part):

It wasn't a problem until a few days ago. Before then,
I recall seeing only perhaps 10% of the messages as spam.
Lately, though, it's ballooned to above 95%.

Until a few days ago it wasn't much of a problem for me either
to read from google, since even when 2 out of three threads
were spam, at least they were obviously spam. That's one of
the nice things about spam, at least so far -- the spammers
make it so obviously spam (this especially goes for e-mail)
that I can dismiss as spam messages/e-mails at a rate of about
two to three per second. I'd hate to give them any ideas, but
you'd think any dummy could come up with something better than
"Ride till she comes" (this is a real spam e-mail title from
my e-mails), such as "I have a question about your last e-mail".

However, in the past few days it's gotten so bad at google that
less than 1 in 10, maybe even less than 1 in 20, thread titles
even appear to be real sci.math, and that's including requests
for solutions manuals. I've taken to looking at the titles at
The Math Forum's sci.math web page, and either responding
directly from there or looking for the thread I'm interested
in at google. The Math Forum seems to be down this morning,
though, so I'm not sure if I'll be posting much (anymore?)
today . . .

Dave L. Renfro
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