Re: Re****ting Spam in Google Groups

On Mar 25, 9:26 am, Space Cadet <kaw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi All
> I found this on rasfc, thought it might be appropriate to pass it
> around to see if we can do something to cut all the crap in here:
>
>  > > The headers of posts made via Google include this:
>
> > >    Complaints-To: groups-ab...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > I assume that you'd simply write a brief note and attach the
> > > offending post, complete with headers.  (Actually, the
> > > headers alone ought to suffice, since they include the
> > > Message-ID.)
> > Thanks, I did that last night.  My note asked them to please make it
> > stop, and I got an automated reply that my message had been sent to
the
> > Gmail abuse team.  It made me feel better, anyway.
>
> If anyone else wants to complain, you can either do as Brian and Bill
> describe, or (through the web interface):
>
> 1. Go tohttp://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.composition/(*)
> 2. Click to open the offending threads.  (This is where tabbed
> browsers
> come into their own:  on a Mac, I open-apple-clicked on all 16 on the
> first page, and then moved on to the next step.)
> 3. Find the name with the email address in green - to the right is
> 'View
> profile'(1) and further along 'More options' - click this 'More
> options'
> link.
> 4. This brings up a selection of links; on the second row is 'Re****t
> this message'.
> 5. You get a form to fill out.
>    a. If you don't want to give them your email I imagine a fake one
> will work just as well.  After you've filled it out the first time, if
> you've got a nice browser you'll only have to type the first letter to
> bring it up again for subsequent re****ts.
>    b. Leave the radio buttons as they are.
>    c. Type something generic in the text box:  I used "This
> spam/****ography is flooding rasfc at the moment; can it please be
> filtered?" and copied it into my clipboard to use on all 16 re****ts I
> made (deleting '****ography' when not appropriate).
>
> If you're doing a whole bunch at a time, you soon get into the rhythm
> of
> it; I re****ted 16 in about 5 minutes.
>
> One hopes that the more people complain, the more likely Google will
> actually do something about it.
>
> (1) Following this allows you to re****t entire users using pretty much
> the same process.
> --
>
> (*) replace '/rec.arts.sf.composition/' with appropriate NG name

Folks that reply to such spam are every bit just as bad if not worse
than the original author(s), because of their reply actions is what's
keeping such bogus and pathetic topics on top of the Usenet stack.
.. - Brad Guth