Managing the newsgroup infestation

May 03, 2020 Last reply: 6 years ago 22 Replies
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A lot of people have been complaining about an individual who is forging posts and trying to bring the group down.



It's easy to filter out his posts in Thunderbird.



See

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At stage 3, select Message-ID ... contains ... aioe.org


I feel a bit bad about suggesting this, as the guy obviously needs the attention, but it would really be a shame if his obsession led to yet another group closing.


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A

Unfortunately several non-pest posters use aioe (I don't know why it seems a bit of a refuge for spammers any nym-shifters)

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G

Assuming that the he is he and not a her.

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Probably because like google groups their abuse policy is nonexistent

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P

Google groups, awful though it is, does have an abuse policy and you can report abusers.

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G

Do any of the non-pest posters use neodome.net, which appears to be one of his other accounts?

One of his characteristics is to cross-post, so just filtering out cross-posts (see the diyfaq link) would cramp his style.

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Not seen any infestation more than you would normally see by means of idiotic crossposting anywhere. Brian

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S

aioe does not require registration; many regard it as a troll-duct and killfile posts from there out of hand. I recommend Eternal-September as a good, free News service.

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S

I found it most unreliable. I prefer to pay EUR 10 to News.Individual.NET each year..

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S

YMMV; I've used E-S for many years now with only the occasional outage. I use a similar service from Albasani as backup when that happens.

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S

Well ..... yes, but the outages could last about a day.

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S

If you're dissatisfied you can always apply for a refund.

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F

Which hasn't happened for a year or two.

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T

Well no, you cant. I tried. It just said that the group abuse did not exist or smoething

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C

Rather than playing whack-a-mole people could block posts from you that are not also from eternal-september. Not Organization: A noiseless patient Spider.

Or you could use a valid email, get an anonymous one.

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If you qualify it with another term, then its ok.

I have the potty mouth version of GB killfiled like that.

Just filter on "From" and his normal posting Nym, AND "Organization" does not contain "A noiseless patient Spider"

(or you can use presence of the "X-Mozilla-News-Host" header on the genuine one).

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I used to use aioe but then it blocked uk.tech.digital-tv which I follow, so I changed to Eternal September. The average quality of posts in all groups does not warrant any expenditure.

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F

if you are referring to the peeler,check any relation to a poster called ordog

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P

aioe now takes uk.tech.digital-tv.

Paul.

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I am happy to pay EUR 10 instead. You get what you pay for, as my granny used to say.

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