On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 21:21:18 -0800 (PST)
Mark Tarver <
dr.mt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You seem to have a plague of messages in Italian.
Why "You" and not "We" ? Who are you addressing ?
> I'm noticing what looks like the same in the Prolog group.
It has appeared on many groups over a long time although the abuser seems
to have a preference for comp.lang.lisp for some reason. At present I
I can see posts of this nature on comp.misc and comp.lang.cobol .
> Anybody tried to cure this problem?
If you mean some central authority , unmoderated newsgroups do not have any
such thing. One connects to a newsserver either directly or indirectly (for
example through a web interface like googlegroups , as you do) and from there
each post propagates through thousand of newsservers all over the world.
Each server has their own filtering rules. For example , if I access
comp.lang.lisp through
news.aioe.org I see fewer of the Italian posts than
if I connect through
news2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de , presumably because
the former has some filtering rules in place which eliminate some of the
Italian posts. See also
https://news.aioe.org/documentation/access-restrictions/ :
3. Forbidden expressions in the body of articles
[...]
Daniele Minotti
Italian lawyer defamed on USENET
.So I think the abuser used to post through
news.aioe.org but was eventually
prevented so he switched to using googlegroups.
Newsservers generally also have some way for reporting abuse (for example
https://news.aioe.org/manual/complaints/) but this tends to apply to posts
made through the server rather than simply posts propagating through the
server. So it wouldn't make sense to use that page to complain about the
Italian posts and , even if you did , the best you could hope for is that
they would get eliminated from
news.aioe.org but you would still see them
accessing comp.lang.lisp through googlegroups. I think googlegroups have
some way to report abuse but , as various people who did report abuses have
said , such reports tend to simply get ignored.
So it comes down to this : as other have pointed out , on unmoderated usenet
you do your own filtering. I don't think googlegroups provides such
functionality so , if you want to do filtering , you must switch to using a
newsreader. Discussion of newsreaders happens on news.software.readers .I'm
not sure if it's on topic there to ask how to start using one but it may be.
I don't think that people would really mind even if you were to ask here.
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vlaho.ninja/prog