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    From Joshua Cogliati@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 27 18:20:00 2023
    Starting around Nov 1st, comp.lang.scheme has been flooded with spam. Does anybody have any idea as to why? Is there anything that can be done?

    Thanks.

    Joshua Cogliati

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  • From Nils M Holm@21:1/5 to Joshua Cogliati on Tue Nov 28 09:32:49 2023
    Joshua Cogliati <[email protected]> wrote:
    Starting around Nov 1st, comp.lang.scheme has been flooded with
    spam. Does anybody have any idea as to why? Is there anything that
    can be done?

    Most of it seem to seep in from Google groups, as usual,
    and most of the messages seem to get cancelled pretty soon,
    at least that is what I observe here.

    If your ISP allows you to cancel spam (mine does not), you can
    do that. Otherwise all you can do is update your killfile.

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    Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > http://t3x.org

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  • From Joshua Cogliati@21:1/5 to Nils M Holm on Tue Nov 28 05:06:21 2023
    On Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 2:32:54 AM UTC-7, Nils M Holm wrote:
    Joshua Cogliati wrote:
    Starting around Nov 1st, comp.lang.scheme has been flooded with
    spam. Does anybody have any idea as to why? Is there anything that
    can be done?
    Most of it seem to seep in from Google groups, as usual,
    and most of the messages seem to get cancelled pretty soon,
    at least that is what I observe here.

    If your ISP allows you to cancel spam (mine does not), you can
    do that. Otherwise all you can do is update your killfile.

    --
    Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > http://t3x.org

    Hm, I have tried marking the messages as spam in google groups, but that only seems to hide them for me, google does not seem to be doing anything with the information.

    Joshua Cogliati

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  • From George Neuner@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Nov 29 14:39:01 2023
    On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 05:06:21 -0800 (PST), Joshua Cogliati
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 2:32:54?AM UTC-7, Nils M Holm wrote:
    Joshua Cogliati wrote:
    Starting around Nov 1st, comp.lang.scheme has been flooded with
    spam. Does anybody have any idea as to why? Is there anything that
    can be done?
    Most of it seem to seep in from Google groups, as usual,
    and most of the messages seem to get cancelled pretty soon,
    at least that is what I observe here.

    If your ISP allows you to cancel spam (mine does not), you can
    do that. Otherwise all you can do is update your killfile.

    --
    Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > http://t3x.org

    Hm, I have tried marking the messages as spam in google groups, but
    that only seems to hide them for me, google does not seem to be doing >anything with the information.

    Joshua Cogliati

    Google requires (at least) several different users to mark a message
    as spam to initiate blocking the sender ... but even then they will
    only block senders who post directly through Google Groups. If the
    sender is using some other provider, Google won't do anything about
    them.

    Google doesn't filter Usenet groups itself, but (fortunately) it does participate in the mutual NN filtering protocol, so marking messages
    as spam in Google alerts *other* Usenet providers who do perform
    filtering.

    Best advice is to get a real NN reader and get your news through some
    other provider such as Eternal September, or i2pn2, etc.

    George

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