On 01/02/2018 17:15, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 4:01 AM, superchromix <mark...@gmail.com> wrote:
Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.idl-pvwave,
started receiving spam messages several months ago.
Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was blocked by Google Groups.
When trying to access comp.lang.idl-pvwave, a message is now displayed, stating
that the group owner needs to remove the spam, and can then apply to Google in
order to have access reinstated.
However, old public Usenet groups like this have no owner. The
comp.lang.idl-pvwave group is more than 20 years old. Hence, there is no way
to unblock the group.
This is a serious problem, since the entire collection of postings going back
many years has been blocked, no just the spam. This resource is frequently
used by IDL programmers.
Seeing the spam postings in this newsgroup, I expect something similar may
happen to comp.lang.python, soon.
Pot, meet Kettle.
Most of our worst spam comes FROM the Google Groups bridge. If they
cut the connection, I would not be sorry.
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This. This a googol times!
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