please; Google STOP your portal to usenet !

[JeffM]

Bob Woodward wrote:

Since google provides a portal to newsgroups
spam comes in
porn comes in
morons come in
Please, Google STOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you reporting the spam to the ISPs?
Are you reporting the spam directly to Google?

If you are posting to spam threads AND NOT doing these things,
**YOU** ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.
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was: please; Google STOP your portal to usenet !)
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The problem is *not* that Google is an access point;
the problem is that (unlike **responsible** providers)
Google does not properly POLICE their users.
--well, they do (after a fashion) *IF* they get enough reports.

Until it affects their bottom line,
corporations don't change their aberrant ways.
If you want to do something about Google Groups spam,
you can:
1) Find a way to convince Google
that it is economically unwise to allow spam spewing.
(Good luck with that.)

2) Lobby Congress for stronger penalties for spam-friendly providers.

....or (because the guy in charge of Google Groups is a cretin):
3) Pray to your favorite diety that the jerk be killed or
incapacitated.
4) Put out a contract on that guy's life.

Until something CHANGES to force their hand,
Google Groups will continue to be a lazy, profit-driven,
POORLY-THOUGHT-OUT spam-friendly portal.
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If you want to bitch about Google Groups,
oddly enough, they have a group for that.

**This group** is NOT the place for your impotent rants.

 

[Bob Woodward]

Since google provides a portal to newsgroups

spam comes in
porn comes in
morons come in

Please, Google STOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Robert

 

[clifto]

JeffM wrote:

Are you reporting the spam directly to Google?

If you are posting to spam threads AND NOT doing these things,
**YOU** ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

I do far better than reporting spam to Google. I tell my cat. He beams the
spammer invisible cat waves. Google does nothing.

--
One meter, to within 0.0125% accuracy (off by just under .005 inches):
Three feet
Three inches
Three eights of an inch

 

[JeffM]

JeffM wrote:

Are you reporting the spam directly to Google?

clifto wrote:
Google does nothing.

Not *completely* true.
While Google Groups is *mostly* irresponsible WRT spam,
if they receive a *critical mass* of complaints (a very high
threshold)
they will terminate an account.

This is mostly useless, however,
as they don't cancel ALL accounts associated with that email address
and that person can still use any of those existing accounts
as well as using the EXACT SAME email address to open new accounts.

"Don't be evil". Hrrrmppf. Be clueless instead.

If they would extend their core business model (Filtering Data)
to Google Groups, they could weed out known spam.

This corporation is doing the bare minimum--and as I already said,
corporations don't change until something affects their bottom line.