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Where's the spam from Mark Lloyd 03-10-2008
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Posted by Mark Lloyd on March 10, 2008, 2:33 pm

While reading this newsgroup, I looked at the first message in each
thread (there were 54 threads containing new messages).

Of those 30 of them were spam, 100% of these came from Google Groups.
There were 24 non-spam threads, 15 of those (63%) did not come from
Google Groups.
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word
in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
--Bertrand Russell

Posted by Frank on March 10, 2008, 2:45 pm
Mark Lloyd wrote:
> While reading this newsgroup, I looked at the first message in each
> thread (there were 54 threads containing new messages).
>
> Of those 30 of them were spam, 100% of these came from Google Groups.
> There were 24 non-spam threads, 15 of those (63%) did not come from
> Google Groups.

I post sometimes through google but I think g.mail, while from google,
is just used to mask identity. My posts there do not come up as g.mail.
Spammers come here because this is a popular group.

Posted by Mark Lloyd on March 10, 2008, 6:04 pm
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:45:35 -0400, Frank

>Mark Lloyd wrote:
>> While reading this newsgroup, I looked at the first message in each
>> thread (there were 54 threads containing new messages).
>>
>> Of those 30 of them were spam, 100% of these came from Google Groups.
>> There were 24 non-spam threads, 15 of those (63%) did not come from
>> Google Groups.
>
>I post sometimes through google but I think g.mail, while from google,
>is just used to mask identity. My posts there do not come up as g.mail.
>Spammers come here because this is a popular group.

My testing, above, had nothing to do with a gmail address. I looked
for the header that says:

User-Agent: G2/1.0
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word
in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
--Bertrand Russell

Posted by RicodJour on March 11, 2008, 10:38 am
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:45:35 -0400, Frank
> >Mark Lloyd wrote:
>
> >> While reading this newsgroup, I looked at the first message in each
> >> thread (there were 54 threads containing new messages).
>
> >> Of those 30 of them were spam, 100% of these came from Google Groups.
> >> There were 24 non-spam threads, 15 of those (63%) did not come from
> >> Google Groups.
>
> >I post sometimes through google but I think g.mail, while from google,
> >is just used to mask identity. My posts there do not come up as g.mail.
> >Spammers come here because this is a popular group.
>
> My testing, above, had nothing to do with a gmail address. I looked
> for the header that says:
>
> User-Agent: G2/1.0

Maybe we should just shoot them...? ;)

R


Posted by on March 10, 2008, 5:22 pm
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:33:01 -0500, Mark Lloyd

>
>While reading this newsgroup, I looked at the first message in each
>thread (there were 54 threads containing new messages).
>
>Of those 30 of them were spam, 100% of these came from Google Groups.
>There were 24 non-spam threads, 15 of those (63%) did not come from
>Google Groups.

I think google as a whole, is responsible for at least half the spam
on the net. When I stopped surfing with google and was careful not to
be logged onto a google affilliated company (like aol) my email spam
dropped by more than 50% ... in spite of the fact that I use my real
Email address everywhere.
If you see a google logo on your screen when you are surfing, you will
get spam about everything you search on.
Turning off cookies made my spam drop another 50% or more

If I am getting spam from my usenet posts it is a very small number

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