Whhaaaa Happend ?
MajorOz
Did we suddenly become available through some wormhole ?
Taking off in the morning in my new trailer to look at the leaves on
the KY side of the Ohio river, from the Mississippi to WVA.
See ya all in a week (maybe on the laptop on the road)
cheers
oz
Bruce C. Baker
"MajorOz" <Maj...@centurytel.net> wrote in message
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> Where did all this spam come from?
Not sure what the mechanism is, but the less active an NG is, the more spam
it seems to attract. :-(
Gaeltach
"Bruce C. Baker" <b...@undisclosedlocation.net> wrote in message
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: "MajorOz" <Maj...@centurytel.net> wrote in message
Time to start a gnu thread?
Tian
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djinn
Leaves are turning here too. Hope ya have a nice trip. Been a while
since I was there, but it was pretty country.
Christopher Bohn
On Oct 8, 6:50 pm, "Bruce C. Baker" <b...@undisclosedlocation.net>
wrote:
> Not sure what the mechanism is, but the less active an NG is, the more spam
> it seems to attract. :-(
That's counterintuitive. I didn't major in marketing, but I'd think
that they'd want to put their ads someplace where people are *more*
likely to see them.
Maybe it's just an SNR problem.
cb
Will in New Haven
The spammers seem to hit ng that have a certain amount of traffic.
Completely dead ng are avoided and very busy ng seem to get almost
none either.
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Tian
spamming the very busy forums.
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Will in New Haven
> Will in New Haven wrote:
>
> > On Oct 9, 7:38 am, Christopher Bohn <engrb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Good morning,
>
> >> On Oct 8, 6:50 pm, "Bruce C. Baker" <b...@undisclosedlocation.net>
> >> wrote:
>
> >>> Not sure what the mechanism is, but the less active an NG is, the more spam
> >>> it seems to attract. :-(
> >> That's counterintuitive. I didn't major in marketing, but I'd think
> >> that they'd want to put their ads someplace where people are *more*
> >> likely to see them.
>
> >> Maybe it's just an SNR problem.
>
> > The spammers seem to hit ng that have a certain amount of traffic.
> > Completely dead ng are avoided and very busy ng seem to get almost
> > none either.
>
> They probably figure their chances of getting shut down are 100% for
> spamming the very busy forums.
I looked in on some forums that are even deader than this one,
including one that never really got off the ground, and they don't
have this problem. And, as you surmise, very few spammers hit the high-
traffic forums. The exceptions being the spam that has some thin
justification to _be_ there. So it is the alive but low-traffic forums
that get this treatment. rec.arts.sf.composition gets more spam than
we do and they have generally been busier but they are not a high-
traffic forum.
lal_truckee
> Where did all this spam come from?
I see none, zero. My filters are disabled. I suspect the
"eternal-september" news server, which I went to when my ISP dropped
usenet, is prefiltering the known spam and surprisingly getting it all...
Tian
Sometimes I think it's a miracle that anybody gets anything. Yet we
do seem to get each other's stuff often enough.
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Will in New Haven
> lal_truckee wrote:
> > MajorOz wrote:
> >> Where did all this spam come from?
>
> > I see none, zero. My filters are disabled. I suspect the
> > "eternal-september" news server, which I went to when my ISP dropped
> > usenet, is prefiltering the known spam and surprisingly getting it all...
>
> Sometimes I think it's a miracle that anybody gets anything. Yet we
> do seem to get each other's stuff often enough.
>
I have been continuing to moniter the spam situation and I have seen
an exception to the "dead newsgroups get no spam" idea that I
postulated. The ng for Louise McMaster Bujold, which died aborning
with one or two threads started and no activity in years, got two
spams recently.
People who want to talk about Bujold, who is a very good and quite
popular author, seem to do it in the blogaverse.
Tian
spam free at the moment. We used to talk about the spam when it went by,
so I know it got some. Not lately though. Alt.fan.douglas-adams gets
some, but not like this recent pulse of crap. I think afh was targeted
this time.
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loupgarous
As one of the two regulars in alt.fan.bujold, I can confrim the
evident phishing spams to the NG.
Don't know whether McEntee or anyone else bit, but I recognized the
pattern. Semi-dodgy site referred to, click on it and get a nice
surprise from the Russian Mob, like your bank account cleaned out.
Tian
Earlier today I helped clean out a newly empty house in San Francisco.
Cleaned out a box of coins, incluiding 300 cents and such oddities
as a poker chip from Artichoke Joe's. If you're curious about the list:
http://tian.greens.org/MountainView/My/Desk/ChickenState.html
Just to bring this on topic a bit, those coins I drop in the pink piggy
bank land about seven inches above and to the left of the SIASL on my
bookshelf. I probably have to add quite a few coins before one lands
7.77 inches above it. Being a six inch long and five inch wide pig, it
holds plenty of change.
I'd drop one of those coins on that "terms of my life thread", but I
know you guys don't want to hear it.
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