Course, some of it -is- just spammers. EG olipo...@gmail.com (http://
groups.google.com/groups/search?
hl=en&q=olipol66%40gmail.com&qt_s=Search) Spams everywhere, hasn't
been shut down yet. Fun :/

On Feb 17, 8:36 pm, Disconnect <dc.disconn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Its not a forum. Its an email list with a web archive that allows posting.
> Different animal.
>
> For example, unless you look at the mail headers you won't know if this
> message came from the gmail web UI, a pop client/cellphone/etc, my fios
> connection or even a random mail relay. Because of that problem, they can't
> just boot someone who got spoofed.
>
> (On the technical-solution side, they could hold unexpected
> outside-origination posts for moderation, but I doubt that feature is
> available, or will be. It'd require changes to the profile system to
> determine what source a user generally posts from and flag messages from
> other sources. And then you get into the nightmare of explaining how it
> works to all the random google-groups admins in some sort of reasonable
> way.)
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:16 PM, ian <stilbit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are you sure? I wouldn't think the sources could be easily spoofed in
> > the forum, but I don;t know much about that sort of thing.
>
> > On Feb 17, 3:00 pm, Disconnect <dc.disconn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The spam is appearing because the sources are generally spoofed. Already
> > > several upstanding members have been kicked off various lists that way,
> > for
> > > no reason.
>
> > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:25 PM, ian <stilbit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I don't like the spam on our discussion group and it seems to be
> > > > getting worse in the last week or so. Maybe the sources could be
> > > > tracked and lose their accounts
>
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