On Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 7:44:37 AM UTC-5, Peter Moylan wrote:
> On 18/12/18 14:51, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > Google GROUPS has nothing to do with it. It is GMAIL you should be
> > complaining about.
>
> Here's a bit more of the evidence. The message in question was posted
> into Google Groups by <
onlinex...@gmail.com>. Now, how likely is it
> that a "37 y.o. woman seeking man 25-50" happens to have a mail username
> of onlinexsingles? In fact the Liane who posted it is more likely to be
> a 50 year-old man seeking suckers of any age.
What's that got to do with anything?
What sort of suckers, anyway? Is your hypothetical man trying to get
money from some random sex-seeker?
> Practically everything in this thread is posted by direct injection into
> Google Groups. Very rarely one sees someone who might be a genuine
> sucker, but mostly this is advertisers replying to themselves.
>
> They have found a newsgroup that appears to have mostly male
> contributors, and they are trying to attract us to their web site. They
> haven't yet figured out the age distribution of the regulars.
Someone has a "web site"? Do their messages include url's? (Unlike you,
I don't read the messages.)
Why are you obsessing over this, instead of either marking them "ignore"
or ignoring them using your own will power?