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Peter Foldes

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Dec 20, 2009, 5:06:18 PM12/20/09
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98 Guy

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Dec 20, 2009, 5:27:55 PM12/20/09
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Peter Foldes wrote:

> Spam

Now you're posting spam?

Peter - what gives?

N. Miller

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Dec 20, 2009, 9:14:04 PM12/20/09
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> Peter Foldes wrote:

>> Spam

He is responding to spam, and identifying it as such. I've taught my
newsreader to just discard it.

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Norman
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98 Guy

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Dec 20, 2009, 10:12:03 PM12/20/09
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"N. Miller" wrote:

> >> Spam
>
> > Now you're posting spam?
> >
> > Peter - what gives?
>
> He is responding to spam, and identifying it as such. I've
> taught my newsreader to just discard it.

What spam is he responding to?

Peter Foldes

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Dec 20, 2009, 11:25:55 PM12/20/09
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98 Guy

The one that is "Free downloads etc etc etc) The person populated the MS servers .
At least in the 36 groups that I participate in. It is pure Spam and nothing else

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98 Guy

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Dec 21, 2009, 9:03:19 AM12/21/09
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Peter Foldes wrote:

> 98 Guy
>
> The one that is "Free downloads etc etc etc) The person populated
> the MS servers. At least in the 36 groups that I participate in.

> It is pure Spam and nothing else

I don't see it on google's "groups" server (usually the spam filtering
on google's server is very weak or non-existant) but in this case I
don't see it:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser/topics

It's been my observation that a lot of spam that appears in the
microsoft.public groups are actually injected by Microsoft's own servers
- an indication they are poorly managed.

Tom Willett

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Dec 21, 2009, 9:22:57 AM12/21/09
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"98 Guy" <9...@Guy.com> wrote in message news:4B2EE783...@Guy.com...

Ignore Peter. He doesn't get it.


N. Miller

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Dec 21, 2009, 2:58:12 PM12/21/09
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On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:03:19 -0500, 98 Guy wrote:

> It's been my observation that a lot of spam that appears in the
> microsoft.public groups are actually injected by Microsoft's own servers
> - an indication they are poorly managed.

In my experience, most spam is injected by Google Groups. Do you consider
them "poorly managed"?

In any case, the spam in question was not injected by Microsoft's own
servers, but by NNTP servers run by Astraweb.

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