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

On Mar 25, 12:39=A0pm, m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:26:53 -0700 (PDT), in sci.space.policy Space
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> Cadet <kaw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >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:
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> > > > The headers of posts made via Google include this:
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> >> > =A0 =A0Complaints-To: groups-ab...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > I assume that you'd simply write a brief note and attach the
> >> > offending post, complete with headers. =A0(Actually, the
> >> > headers alone ought to suffice, since they include the
> >> > Message-ID.)
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> >> Thanks, I did that last night. =A0My note asked them to please make
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> >> stop, and I got an automated reply that my message had been sent to
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> >> Gmail abuse team. =A0It made me feel better, anyway.
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> >If anyone else wants to complain, you can either do as Brian and Bill
> >describe, or (through the web interface):
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> >1. Go tohttp://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.composition/(*)
> >2. Click to open the offending threads. =A0(This is where tabbed
> >browsers
> >come into their own: =A0on 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.
> > =A0 a. If you don't want to give them your email I imagine a fake one
> >will work just as well. =A0After you've filled it out the first time,
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> >you've got a nice browser you'll only have to type the first letter to
> >bring it up again for subsequent re****ts.
> > =A0 b. Leave the radio buttons as they are.
> > =A0 c. Type something generic in the text box: =A0I 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).
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> >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.
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> >One hopes that the more people complain, the more likely Google will
> >actually do something about it.
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> >(1) Following this allows you to re****t entire users using pretty much
> >the same process.
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> It doesn't matter, rec.photo.digital.* just hashed this out. You might
> care to take a look at:
> Killing all posts from Google Groups
> The Usenet Improvement Project:http://improve-usenet.org

Hmm, so nobody is supposed to post from any place they can't use a
newsreader, like say work.