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Robert Miles
May 4, 2013, 12:39:04 AM5/4/13
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A cure for spamming: Cut off all the spammer's fingers. If
spammers are enough like humans, a few of them will also
need to have all their toes cut off, since a few humans can
operate a keyboard with their toes.
If you'd like to chase all spammers out of this newsgroup,
note that most spammers post using Google Groups, and
Guggle Gropes will barely do anything noticeable about
spam until at least two people report it to them. They allow
the email method for reporting the spam; try it if you want
to see how many weeks it takes them to respond to that
method; expect it to be at least 6 weeks. They also allow
a web-based method that often works by the next day.
For this method, go to the newsgroup using their web
page for it, open the message to be reported, click on the
triangle next to the reply arrow, then click on Report
abuse. Spam is the default report category; the other
categories get faster action if they fit the category
chosen, but usually no action if they don't fit the category.
Their spam category has a stricter definition than I often
see in this newsgroup - it usually requires the spammer
to be trying to sell something.
If you find a post already marked as abuse (with an adequate
reason), go ahead and mark it again unless you're shown as
the last person who marked it.
If you find a post already marked as abuse but with no
reason beyond being off-topic, it's best to use your
browser's back button to leave that post without
marking it again; that way, Guggle Gropes will not
decide it doesn't fit and remove the markings, but users
will see that it isn't worth reading for any reason except
to check if it is spam.
Guggle Gropes puts a limit, for each newsgroup, on how
many posts you can report as abuse and get the server
to remember those reports. Usually, an unlimited number
of reports that AREN'T the first one; at first, only one
report a day that IS the first one. After the first day,
though, the limit on first reports rises to the number
of reports you have made where someone else agreed
that they are abuse, minus the number of reports where
no one has agreed yet, but with a minimum of one a day.
However, once enough people have agreed with you,
your limit is removed FOR THAT NEWSGROUP.
If you'd like to send their abuse department a message,
click on the triangle next to the gear, then on Report an
issue about Google Groups. Expect any answers to
such messages to be RARE - I finally got one after
reporting over 27,000 spam messages.
Curing a spammer boss is a little harder - first use the
cure for spamming, then also cut out the spammer
boss's vocal cords.
Spammers may have trouble finding jobs after they are
cured, so tell them that some large cities have jobs
which require crawling through their larger old sewer
pipes, looking for sections that need to be replaced.
New York City, for example.
spammers are enough like humans, a few of them will also
need to have all their toes cut off, since a few humans can
operate a keyboard with their toes.
If you'd like to chase all spammers out of this newsgroup,
note that most spammers post using Google Groups, and
Guggle Gropes will barely do anything noticeable about
spam until at least two people report it to them. They allow
the email method for reporting the spam; try it if you want
to see how many weeks it takes them to respond to that
method; expect it to be at least 6 weeks. They also allow
a web-based method that often works by the next day.
For this method, go to the newsgroup using their web
page for it, open the message to be reported, click on the
triangle next to the reply arrow, then click on Report
abuse. Spam is the default report category; the other
categories get faster action if they fit the category
chosen, but usually no action if they don't fit the category.
Their spam category has a stricter definition than I often
see in this newsgroup - it usually requires the spammer
to be trying to sell something.
If you find a post already marked as abuse (with an adequate
reason), go ahead and mark it again unless you're shown as
the last person who marked it.
If you find a post already marked as abuse but with no
reason beyond being off-topic, it's best to use your
browser's back button to leave that post without
marking it again; that way, Guggle Gropes will not
decide it doesn't fit and remove the markings, but users
will see that it isn't worth reading for any reason except
to check if it is spam.
Guggle Gropes puts a limit, for each newsgroup, on how
many posts you can report as abuse and get the server
to remember those reports. Usually, an unlimited number
of reports that AREN'T the first one; at first, only one
report a day that IS the first one. After the first day,
though, the limit on first reports rises to the number
of reports you have made where someone else agreed
that they are abuse, minus the number of reports where
no one has agreed yet, but with a minimum of one a day.
However, once enough people have agreed with you,
your limit is removed FOR THAT NEWSGROUP.
If you'd like to send their abuse department a message,
click on the triangle next to the gear, then on Report an
issue about Google Groups. Expect any answers to
such messages to be RARE - I finally got one after
reporting over 27,000 spam messages.
Curing a spammer boss is a little harder - first use the
cure for spamming, then also cut out the spammer
boss's vocal cords.
Spammers may have trouble finding jobs after they are
cured, so tell them that some large cities have jobs
which require crawling through their larger old sewer
pipes, looking for sections that need to be replaced.
New York City, for example.
John H. Gohde
May 4, 2013, 4:50:42 PM5/4/13
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On May 4, 12:39 am, Robert Miles <mile...@Usenet-News.net> wrote:
> A cure for spamming:
How about having a life?
> A cure for spamming:
How about having a life?
Robert Miles
May 7, 2013, 1:03:40 AM5/7/13
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force to do it.
Of course, putting them on a diet free of dihydrogen
monoxide should also work.
John H. Gohde
May 7, 2013, 5:20:27 AM5/7/13
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