breamore...@gmail.com on Sat, 3 Feb 2018 04:33:36 -0800 (PST) typed in
comp.lang.python the following:
>On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 5:01:58 PM UTC, superchromix 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.
>
>That's no big deal as this list used to have a wonderful signal to noise
>ratio, now it would be better to report the noise to signal ratio. I've just
>finished flagging up 45 consecutive messages on the group as spam, all of them
>from today and all of them from the "Case Solutions" crew.
So you just indicated that of N postings, 45 different ones were
spam? Rather than indicate that one poster of N is a spammer?
I know, Google doesn't let you filter posts on author, and make
specific authors or subjects to be ignored.
And their search engine is a joke.
>The downside of this list being blocked is that you'd all no doubt miss my
>wonderful contributions :) Unless of course a new list is opened, properly
>moderated, with a really original name like python-users.
Those of us who do not use google-groups may not notice the loss
of the google groupies.
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