Another suggestion re spam

[LouB]

A suggestion:

If you have a little time open each spam and view the header. Actually just open it and then click *Forward* You should see the whole header. If the X-Abuse line shows [e-mail] then *Forward* the whole damn thing to [e-mail]. Just copy [e-mail] and then use Ctrl V to paste it into the To

Maybe if a lot of us keep at it the folks at google will:

1. Get the message
2. Get tired of being flooded with complaints
3. DO SOMETHING

BTW I use a munged *From* so Google can not even complain back at me.

Lou

[Gary H]

In other words, react to a problem (usenet abuse) by CREATING MORE OF IT.

[Doug Miller]

Ummmm.... no. Read it again. He said to *forward* it to Google's abuse account. That's an *email* complaint directly to Google.

Which is a fine idea, except for one tiny problem: Google doesn't care, and won't do a damn thing about it. Easier to just killfile all GoogleGroups traffic.

[Dan Espen]

Yes. There is a "report abuse" link right on Google. I did my part and reported plenty of spam. Never made the slightest difference.

[Gary H]

OK, I'm a little bit off. You're reacting to a news problem by creating an email problem. That's still reacting to a problem by creating a problem.

Yes.

[Lee]

I'm betting the folks at Google have filters in place so that they don't have to see the complaints, LOL. If they actually read 1/4 of the complaints, they'd have a clue already...

[Doug Miller]

Sure, but you have to look at who it's creating an email problem *for*: Google. The same clowns who are responsible for the news problem.

What's wrong with that?

[David Nebenzahl]

On 4/22/2008 6:09 PM Lee spake thus:

They have a clue or three, of that you can be sure. As someone else pointed out, they just don't give a shit about it.

[stu]

Is it possible that google is just waiting until most isp's give up on newservers, then they will "takeover" and then fix the problem they created?

[David Nebenzahl]

On 4/23/2008 7:55 PM stu spake thus:

Definitely possible, likely even. They might "fix" Usenet by just eliminating it altogether.