Another suggestion re spam

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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?

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 s*it about it.

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?

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

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