Pushed the “Report Spam” button – now what?
abzorba
strange bandwidth) I was surprised to find a number of threads dealing
with such linguistic themes as:
Desi Aunty Getting Fucked in Ass & Her Neighbour Put the Cock in Mouth
Like Medicine
and many others of a similar nature. I had a look at some of these,
and found that they delivered a great deal less than they had
promised, which was not much of a disappointment to me. That is not
because I am one of those dissemblers who claim that they find
pornography “sad”. Just that I prefer some ambient style and
refinement to my erotica. The mixture of aggressive prurience and
prudery is so typically American.
Nevertheless, I will get to the point. I pressed the “Report Spam”
button. And I have had occasion to press it numerous times since, like
one of those mice on cocaine pushing a lever to get his next hit.
Guess what? Nothing happened at all. The thread in question did NOT
disappear, and in fact, dozens of new ones turned up. Then I noticed
that in many newsgroups, that is ALL that is displayed there. And each
invitation to obtain unbelievably lubricious piccies by pressing a
secret button on the upper right of the screen has a “Report Spam”
button under it.
I think it was Kurt Vonnegut’s “Sirens of Titans” that featured a
military space ship that had only UP and DOWN buttons, and the Down
button was not connected to anything. (Posters might enlighten me on
that one). I am wondering if the “Report Spam” button here is in the
same league.
Do the owners of newsgroups or Google get some remuneration for this
incessant avalanche of smut? Because if they do, then let it continue.
But if they don’t, why can’t they just switch it off? Does anything
happen at all when millions of people push that anti-spam button? Is
anyone made aware of the signal? Are there stats kept? What’s the
story?
- Myle...@yahoo.com.au
“Well, this changes things!”: newly emergent butterfly flapping its
wings.
Steve Hayes
wrote:
>Nevertheless, I will get to the point. I pressed the �Report Spam�
>button. And I have had occasion to press it numerous times since, like
>one of those mice on cocaine pushing a lever to get his next hit.
>Guess what? Nothing happened at all. The thread in question did NOT
>disappear, and in fact, dozens of new ones turned up. Then I noticed
>that in many newsgroups, that is ALL that is displayed there. And each
>invitation to obtain unbelievably lubricious piccies by pressing a
>secret button on the upper right of the screen has a �Report Spam�
>button under it.
If you're reading newsgroups via web-mail, there might be a "report spam"
button, but that does nothing to control the content of newsgroups, only the
e-mail that you yourself receive, and not even then.
There is a spammer who seeks unmoderated mailing lists on Yahoo Groups, and I
report it regularly, and it simply changes to yet another Yahoo address and
goes on mailing.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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madge
wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 19:23:32 -0700 (PDT), abzorba <myle...@yahoo.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Nevertheless, I will get to the point. I pressed the “Report Spam”
>> button. And I have had occasion to press it numerous times since, like
>> one of those mice on cocaine pushing a lever to get his next hit.
>> Guess what? Nothing happened at all. The thread in question did NOT
>> disappear, and in fact, dozens of new ones turned up. Then I noticed
>> that in many newsgroups, that is ALL that is displayed there. And each
>> invitation to obtain unbelievably lubricious piccies by pressing a
>> secret button on the upper right of the screen has a “Report Spam”
>> button under it.
>
> If you're reading newsgroups via web-mail, there might be a "report spam"
> button, but that does nothing to control the content of newsgroups, only
> the
> e-mail that you yourself receive, and not even then.
>
> There is a spammer who seeks unmoderated mailing lists on Yahoo Groups,
> and I
> report it regularly, and it simply changes to yet another Yahoo address
> and
> goes on mailing.
>
>
>
Do not worry the Death Ray is probably turning in his souls direction.
--
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Nicko
Every time you click the "Report spam" thingie a robot kitten is
aborted.
Frederick Williams
> Do the owners of newsgroups [...]
There are no such people.
the Omrud
It is reputed that The Committee of AUE can name the owner.
--
David
jag...@gmail.com
what's going on?
I've reported lots but it doesn't really have much effect