Google Groups is showing 33 posts by Mason since the clampdown by Usenet server operators a week ago, only two of which have made it past NIN’s filters. They are buried in among what might be a couple of hundred spam postings.
Well done NIN!
It makes a mockery of Mason’s claim to diminish ‘the trolls’ by flooding
the group with irrelevant postings (aka ‘trolling’) designed to deflect attention from them…but he’s now shouting in a vacuum and no-one can hear him.
And the spammers, who, like Mason, are stuck in transmit mode, are shouting at each other but no-one is listening…
On 01/12/2023 03:41 pm, Spike wrote:
Google Groups is showing 33 posts by Mason since the clampdown by Usenet
server operators a week ago, only two of which have made it past NIN’s
filters. They are buried in among what might be a couple of hundred spam
postings.
Well done NIN!
It makes a mockery of Mason’s claim to diminish ‘the trolls’ by flooding
the group with irrelevant postings (aka ‘trolling’) designed to deflect >> attention from them…but he’s now shouting in a vacuum and no-one can hear
him.
And the spammers, who, like Mason, are stuck in transmit mode, are shouting >> at each other but no-one is listening…
Has NIN simply blocked all posts made via Google Groups?
JNugent <[email protected]> wrote:
On 01/12/2023 03:41 pm, Spike wrote:
Google Groups is showing 33 posts by Mason since the clampdown by Usenet >>> server operators a week ago, only two of which have made it past NIN’s >>> filters. They are buried in among what might be a couple of hundred spam >>> postings.
Well done NIN!
It makes a mockery of Mason’s claim to diminish ‘the trolls’ by flooding
the group with irrelevant postings (aka ‘trolling’) designed to deflect >>> attention from them…but he’s now shouting in a vacuum and no-one can hear
him.
And the spammers, who, like Mason, are stuck in transmit mode, are shouting >>> at each other but no-one is listening…
Has NIN simply blocked all posts made via Google Groups?
I’m guessing so, I don’t normally check headers but it’s noticeable in the
groups I take that the posting rates have reduced.
I think Eternal September users were saying much the same some days ago.
Google Groups seems to have been taking a pasting for their indifference to putting out so much Usenet spam, probably because they can’t monetise Usenet and so don’t care about it.
On 01/12/2023 04:40 pm, Spike wrote:
JNugent <[email protected]> wrote:
On 01/12/2023 03:41 pm, Spike wrote:
Google Groups is showing 33 posts by Mason since the clampdown by Usenet >>>> server operators a week ago, only two of which have made it past NIN’s >>>> filters. They are buried in among what might be a couple of hundred spam >>>> postings.
Well done NIN!
It makes a mockery of Mason’s claim to diminish ‘the trolls’ by flooding
the group with irrelevant postings (aka ‘trolling’) designed to deflect
attention from them…but he’s now shouting in a vacuum and no-one can hear
him.
And the spammers, who, like Mason, are stuck in transmit mode, are shouting
at each other but no-one is listening…
Has NIN simply blocked all posts made via Google Groups?
I’m guessing so, I don’t normally check headers but it’s noticeable in the
groups I take that the posting rates have reduced.
I think Eternal September users were saying much the same some days ago.
Google Groups seems to have been taking a pasting for their indifference to >> putting out so much Usenet spam, probably because they can’t monetise
Usenet and so don’t care about it.
Oooh... that must be *so* frustrating for would-be ukrc posters who use Google Groups (with or without a custom-written "killfile")!
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