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Spammers - why us?

aspasia

2008-04-03, 5:25 pm

This NG has recently been infested by hordes of posts for "cheap 'x' "
products from Asia and some kind of airline spam in German.

It's eating up this NG! But other NGs I read regularly are not
infested.

Anybody got a theory?

Aspasia

cshenk

2008-04-03, 5:25 pm

<aspasia> wrote in message news:47f54833$0$16650$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> This NG has recently been infested by hordes of posts for "cheap 'x' "
> products from Asia and some kind of airline spam in German.
>
> It's eating up this NG! But other NGs I read regularly are not
> infested.
>
> Anybody got a theory?

Same is happening in the cooking group.

Theory: We are active groups so without bothering to look, they spam them.
Then anothr sees the increased traffic (with no clue on content) and adds
more thinking they are selling stuff.

In fact, I would go a very far FAR way out of my way and pay double or more
for any product not related to any of those spammers.

Oren

2008-04-03, 5:25 pm

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:12:27 -0700, aspasia wrote:

>This NG has recently been infested by hordes of posts for "cheap 'x' "
>products from Asia and some kind of airline spam in German.
>
>It's eating up this NG! But other NGs I read regularly are not
>infested.
>
>Anybody got a theory?
>
>Aspasia

What I notice; is when spam (obvious threads) are replied too, it
increases. Threads posted to non related groups and even six groups.

Now, this group IS Anarchist - no moderator

Dan Espen

2008-04-03, 5:25 pm

aspasia writes:

> This NG has recently been infested by hordes of posts for "cheap 'x' "
> products from Asia and some kind of airline spam in German.
>
> It's eating up this NG! But other NGs I read regularly are not
> infested.
>
> Anybody got a theory?

Well, first and foremost, some IDIOT is buying things that are
advertised here. Soon after that IDIOT runs out of money, the
spam will stop. I know it's not IDIOTS. There can't be more
than one person that dumb.

But, the solution is simple, I resisted for a long time, but
it works like magic. Block all posts originating from googlegroups
and the problem is gone.

Sure I miss a FEW legitimate posts. I can live with that.

DerbyDad03

2008-04-03, 5:25 pm

On Apr 3, 5:42=A0pm, Oren <O...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:12:27 -0700, aspasia wrote:
>
>
>
>
> What I notice; is when spam (obvious threads) are replied too, it
> increases. Threads posted to non related groups and even six groups.
>
> Now, this group IS Anarchist - no moderator

re: when spam (obvious threads) are replied too, it increases

The other day I saw an an obvious spam with 1 reply. Thinking that
perhaps someone in this group had penned a witty response, I took a
look.

What I found was that the reply was another spam for totally
unrelated product!

That's what we need - a group where spammers spend all of their time
spamming replies to other spams until the whole thing just implodes.
<g>

G. Morgan

2008-04-03, 5:25 pm

aspasia wrote:

>This NG has recently been infested by hordes of posts for "cheap 'x' "
>products from Asia and some kind of airline spam in German.
>
>It's eating up this NG! But other NGs I read regularly are not
>infested.
>
>Anybody got a theory?

It mostly comes from Google Groups, and Google does *nothing* to stop it. Do
yourself a favor and kill everything from Google Groups.

This site will get you started:

www.improve-usenet.org

--

I kill all Google Group posts, you can too.
Take back Usenet <--> http://improve-usenet.org

AZ Nomad

2008-04-03, 5:25 pm

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:48:56 GMT, Dan Espen <daneNO@MORE.mk.SPAMtelcordia.com> wrote:
>aspasia writes:

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>Well, first and foremost, some IDIOT is buying things that are
>advertised here. Soon after that IDIOT runs out of money, the
>spam will stop. I know it's not IDIOTS. There can't be more
>than one person that dumb.

>But, the solution is simple, I resisted for a long time, but
>it works like magic. Block all posts originating from googlegroups
>and the problem is gone.

>Sure I miss a FEW legitimate posts. I can live with that.

If you use a real newsreader, it is a simple matter to put in a filter along
the lines "if message posted from google groups but not posted by (list of
valie posters) then filter it out"

I have a total of 5 people in my exceptions list.

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