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Jay E. Morris

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Nov 4, 2023, 12:41:49 PM11/4/23
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These are a few of the IDs. I tried to pull one from each unique username.

<83a8dedb-7377-4e29...@googlegroups.com>
<ab156070-9250-48bf...@googlegroups.com>
<ab156070-9250-48bf...@googlegroups.com>
<ab0ab31c-8de1-4c6a...@googlegroups.com>
<c8af3625-3a66-484d...@googlegroups.com>
<ea3f0fd2-0d1e-4170...@googlegroups.com>
<ccfe1c56-2906-4c17...@googlegroups.com>
<dbb12cd2-9dd5-4d47...@googlegroups.com>
<c42adfaf-a640-40d9...@googlegroups.com>
<8c8c0dca-68fa-4069...@googlegroups.com>
<ae390c68-b30f-4e25...@googlegroups.com>
<129797f4-71c9-49c4...@googlegroups.com>

Nuno Silva

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Nov 5, 2023, 5:06:12 AM11/5/23
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Some loan-related spam appeared on pt.comp.geral. In case it is not
targeted by NoCeMs:

<49e4b9e5-0984-4303...@googlegroups.com>
<51136171-04df-4025...@googlegroups.com>
<f1d5ada9-25ba-4d6d...@googlegroups.com>
<e6f4ed94-6a3d-491b...@googlegroups.com>

These appear to be all the same post, posted multiple times.

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William Unruh

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Nov 5, 2023, 11:38:26 AM11/5/23
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On 2023-11-05, Nuno Silva <nunoj...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2023-11-04, Jay E. Morris wrote:
>

And now comp.text.tex is being swamped with google-groups crap. I
thought ES was blocking all google-groups stuff.

Ray Banana

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Nov 5, 2023, 12:03:57 PM11/5/23
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No, E-S filters all GG stuff for spam. And the spammers have now
switched from slot machines to football.

Filters adjusted.

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William Unruh

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Nov 7, 2023, 9:21:47 AM11/7/23
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On 2023-11-05, Ray Banana <ray...@raybanana.net> wrote:
> * William Unruh wrote:
>> On 2023-11-05, Nuno Silva <nunoj...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2023-11-04, Jay E. Morris wrote:
>>>
>>
>> And now comp.text.tex is being swamped with google-groups crap. I
>> thought ES was blocking all google-groups stuff.
>
> No, E-S filters all GG stuff for spam. And the spammers have now
> switched from slot machines to football.

I do not think filters are useful. They seem to be just dumping out
garbage-- random names and addresses, in obscure fonts and languages.
Sometimes it is movie titles. Probably generated by chatGP
>
> Filters adjusted.
>

Ray Banana

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Nov 7, 2023, 9:46:28 AM11/7/23
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Thus spake William Unruh <un...@invalid.ca>



>> No, E-S filters all GG stuff for spam. And the spammers have now
>> switched from slot machines to football.
> I do not think filters are useful. They seem to be just dumping out
> garbage-- random names and addresses, in obscure fonts and languages.
> Sometimes it is movie titles. Probably generated by chatGP

Now, there are filters and filters. These are my filter results
for yesterday (just the top 5 spam groups):

Date Group No. of spam articles rejected
---------------------------------------------------------------------
2023-11-06 comp.cad.cadence 5,155
2023-11-06 microsoft.public.project 4,999
2023-11-06 bit.listserv.ibm-main 4,430
2023-11-06 comp.text.tex 3,785
2023-11-06 comp.protocols.dicom 2,386
[...]
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sum 41,309

What you are seeing in these newsgroups is just the articles that
escaped the filters. And the movie spam is already being rejected
as of today,

Michael S

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Nov 7, 2023, 3:11:41 PM11/7/23
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In specific case of comp.os.vms your filter has efficiency of almost
exactly 90%. Which, IMHO, is neither bad nor good.


Daniel65

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Nov 7, 2023, 11:21:14 PM11/7/23
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chatGP!! Who needs it??
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Nuno Silva

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Nov 15, 2023, 5:07:44 AM11/15/23
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There are four financial GG spam posts in soc.culture.portuguese, about
opportunities to acquire counterfeit banknotes:

Message-ID: <ab4c2b22-c190-4a0a...@googlegroups.com>
Message-ID: <68b9a4a3-e4c7-4c1f...@googlegroups.com>
Message-ID: <63fb8a26-7793-4db6...@googlegroups.com>
Message-ID: <ca1d9126-d129-4435...@googlegroups.com>

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Ray Banana

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Nov 15, 2023, 7:08:37 AM11/15/23
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Thus spake "Nuno Silva" <nunoj...@invalid.invalid>

> There are four financial GG spam posts in soc.culture.portuguese, about
> opportunities to acquire counterfeit banknotes:

Thanks, my filter now understands Portuguese ;-)

candycanearter07

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Nov 15, 2023, 12:43:10 PM11/15/23
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On 11/15/23 06:08, Ray Banana wrote:
> Thus spake "Nuno Silva" <nunoj...@invalid.invalid>
>
>> There are four financial GG spam posts in soc.culture.portuguese, about
>> opportunities to acquire counterfeit banknotes:
>
> Thanks, my filter now understands Portuguese ;-)

But can it speak Portuguese?
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