Re: Spam on Usenet

[brianric]

Not really. I just have a Hotmail account for newsgroups, and SpamKiller
deletes anything going to my Hotmail account.
> wrote in message
...
> I have been reading and posting on this newsgroup since March. Only
> recently have I noticed spam showing up on this group. Is this what we
are
> to expect? I guess a Newsgroup is a great target for Spam and it seems
they
> are starting to catch on, I wonder how long until it gets to a point that
we
> will have to stop using these newsgroups, what a shame that would be.
>
>

[Stephane Beaudry]

> Not really. I just have a Hotmail account for newsgroups, and SpamKiller
> deletes anything going to my Hotmail account.

I wasn't talking about receiving spam in my inbox, I get that anyway, but
getting spam in the newsgroup really sucks and could render it useless in no
time.

[Brian]

> wrote
> I have been reading and posting on this newsgroup since March. Only
> recently have I noticed spam showing up on this group.
I assume you are talking about this group (avpt) in particular? Other
posters seemed to have missed that part. Certainly other groups are rife
with spam. We are lucky that our group seems to have gone unnoticed so far.
Particularly since its an "alt" group, which seems to be a more common
target.

Part of the reason that this seems to be working is that people generally
don't crosspost. So the bots have not picked up this group in their scanning
yet.

Yes, I would agree that some groups have been made useless because the real
messages are buried under the volume of spam. Which is one of the theories
behind the use of the word "spam" comes from (bloody Vikings :-) )

Brian

[Stephane Beaudry]

Yes I meant this group. I don't see why a bot would need to scan anything
else then the list of newsgroups and simply start sending spam like crazy.

"Brian" > wrote in message
...
> > wrote
> > I have been reading and posting on this newsgroup since March. Only
> > recently have I noticed spam showing up on this group.
> I assume you are talking about this group (avpt) in particular? Other
> posters seemed to have missed that part. Certainly other groups are rife
> with spam. We are lucky that our group seems to have gone unnoticed so
far.
> Particularly since its an "alt" group, which seems to be a more common
> target.
>
> Part of the reason that this seems to be working is that people generally
> don't crosspost. So the bots have not picked up this group in their
scanning
> yet.
>
> Yes, I would agree that some groups have been made useless because the
real
> messages are buried under the volume of spam. Which is one of the theories
> behind the use of the word "spam" comes from (bloody Vikings :-) )
>
> Brian
>
>

[MegaZone]

"Stephane Beaudry" > shaped the electrons to say:
>Yes I meant this group. I don't see why a bot would need to scan anything
>else then the list of newsgroups and simply start sending spam like crazy.

That's what was happening - the spam that hit this group was also
sent, at the same time, to almost every public newsgroup I read.

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