Solutions Manual Spam

I keep seeing these spams for solutions manuals. I keep filtering
them but somehow they keep getting past the filters. Anyway, I finally
looked at the messsage and it appears that these have the answers for
textbook questions. Wouldn't using one of these manuals be cheating?
Eric

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Genesys wrote:

On Monday, June 24, 2013 1:20:53 PM UTC-4, et...@whidbey.com wrote:
I keep seeing these spams for solutions manuals. I keep filtering

them but somehow they keep getting past the filters. Anyway, I finally

looked at the messsage and it appears that these have the answers for

textbook questions. Wouldn't using one of these manuals be cheating?

Eric

It certainly would be cheating.

The spam messages themselves are extremely annoying (as is all spam). I'm using Google Groups to get on Usenet and they mark them as abuse quickly,

Goggle doesn't flag them, people using Goggle Groups mark them for
abuse. They have to be logged in, or screw with Google's Captcha.

 

[Genesys]

On Monday, June 24, 2013 1:20:53 PM UTC-4, et...@whidbey.com wrote:

I keep seeing these spams for solutions manuals. I keep filtering

them but somehow they keep getting past the filters. Anyway, I finally

looked at the messsage and it appears that these have the answers for

textbook questions. Wouldn't using one of these manuals be cheating?

Eric

It certainly would be cheating.

The spam messages themselves are extremely annoying (as is all spam). I'm using Google Groups to get on Usenet and they mark them as abuse quickly, but people using traditional newsreaders do have problems with them since the headers seem to change. If you can filter by keyword, filter by the email address in the message body (the one they advertise for ordering). There's only 2 or 3. The product they're selling, probably pirated...Googling suggests I can pirate it myself rather easily if I wanted so it'd be easy enough..

 

[Robert Macy]

On Monday, June 24, 2013 11:04:41 AM UTC-7, Genesys wrote:

On Monday, June 24, 2013 1:20:53 PM UTC-4, et...@whidbey.com wrote:
I keep seeing these spams for solutions manuals. I keep filtering

them but somehow they keep getting past the filters. Anyway, I finally

looked at the messsage and it appears that these have the answers for

textbook questions. Wouldn't using one of these manuals be cheating?

Eric

It certainly would be cheating.

The spam messages themselves are extremely annoying (as is all spam). I'm using Google Groups to get on Usenet and they mark them as abuse quickly, but people using traditional newsreaders do have problems with them since the headers seem to change. If you can filter by keyword, filter by the email address in the message body (the one they advertise for ordering). There's only 2 or 3. The product they're selling, probably pirated...Googling suggests I can pirate it myself rather easily if I wanted so it'd be easy enough.
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Don't care much for the 'spam' aspect, but from the 'cheating' aspect. I always learned from EXAMPLES, rather than the prose of the text. In other words, show me something similar, THEN I'll understand the principles. Tell me the principle and it's like, "I know you're speaking english. I hear the words, but they make no sense." At Stanford, all tests were 'open book' much like simulating the real world. In the real world you have access to anything you can get your hands on, so why not duplicate that environment in the academic's student world? What's with this obfuscation by using these closed book tests? Just not realistic to what I expect from an employee. I want them to drag every bit of outside intelligence in when they solve a problem. Not close off outside information and 'try' to solve the problem on their own. Just stupid.

Then again, if the information this person is touting to supply is a 'precursor' of the questions, not 'history' of similar questions. THAT is cheating by enabling a participant to gain foreknowledge/advantage over another participant by learning the tasks and texts of the problems at hand.

Just my two cents worth.

 

[Genesys]

On Monday, June 24, 2013 4:03:06 PM UTC-4, Michael Terrell wrote:

Genesys wrote:



On Monday, June 24, 2013 1:20:53 PM UTC-4, et...@whidbey.com wrote:

I keep seeing these spams for solutions manuals. I keep filtering



them but somehow they keep getting past the filters. Anyway, I finally



looked at the messsage and it appears that these have the answers for



textbook questions. Wouldn't using one of these manuals be cheating?



Eric



It certainly would be cheating.



The spam messages themselves are extremely annoying (as is all spam). I'm using Google Groups to get on Usenet and they mark them as abuse quickly,





Goggle doesn't flag them, people using Goggle Groups mark them for

abuse. They have to be logged in, or screw with Google's Captcha.

I know you can report (and I do if I find spam that isn't already flagged), but I always thought they'd have an automatic spam filter as well. Guess not. By the time I read this group, most of them are usually already marked.