Re: Reporting Spam in Google Groups

Mike  Schilling wrote:

> David T. Bilek wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:51:46 -0700, "Mike  Schilling"
> ><mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> >>"Space Cadet" <kaw211@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> > > news:4466c672-d277-4c29-b609-20b0fba821cf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > com...
> > > > 
> > > > One hopes that the more people complain, the more likely Google
> > > > will actually do something about it.
> > > 
> > > Well, at least they're no less likely to something about it.
> > > comp.lang.java.programming has become almost unusable over the
> > > past week from Google-posted spam, and there's no sign of any
> > > action from them.
> > > 
> > 
> > Isn't that, in effect, a denial of service attack?
> 
> Sure.  What's your point?

If it was anybody but the $900 billion gorilla allowing all this spam
to vector through their service, we'd have seen a Usenet Death Penalty
by now.




Brian

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