Hostile takeover

[john.m.s...@prodigy.net]

Can this be fixed? Some group has taken over and is engaging in conversation in an unknown language/text.

[Scott Lurndal]

"john.m.s...@prodigy.net" <john.m.s...@prodigy.net> writes:
>Can this be fixed? Some group has taken over and is engaging in conversation in an unknown language/text.

Sure can. Report it to google (which is the source of the spam). If enough
people report it, google will make the group read-only.

Sucks for people who post through google, but they can always use
eternal september.

[hub...@ccanoemail.com]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:00:43 GMT, sc...@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

Any tips on how to report it to google groups ?
I don't see any " Complaints To " in the header info -
sample pasted below ..
John T.

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X-Received: by 2002:a05:620a:4002:b0:773:f2a0:fda1 with SMTP id
h2-20020a05620a400200b00773f2a0fda1mr244820qko.10.1699630966325;
Fri, 10 Nov 2023 07:42:46 -0800 (PST)
X-Received: by 2002:a17:90a:e2d6:b0:27d:1cde:bc09 with SMTP id
fr22-20020a17090ae2d600b0027d1cdebc09mr1219400pjb.8.1699630966089;
Fri, 10
Nov 2023 07:42:46 -0800 (PST)
Path: not-for-mail
Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 07:42:45 -0800 (PST)
Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com;
posting-host=2a09:bac5:46f4:16d2:0:0:246:b;
posting-account=8gjhxQoAAABFeikXVxjRJUj5Fk55vZBW
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User-Agent: G2/1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <dbec9ee6-5f46-46d5...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: ???????? ??? 5 ??? 50 ?????? ????? ??? 5??? 50?????? 2565
Betflix ??? 5 ??? 50
From: Sanphing <sanph...@gmail.com>
Injection-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:42:46 +0000
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
X-Received-Bytes: 12451
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[Scott Lurndal]

hub...@ccanoemail.com writes:
>On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:00:43 GMT, sc...@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
>wrote:
>
>>"john.m.s...@prodigy.net" <john.m.s...@prodigy.net> writes:
>>>Can this be fixed? Some group has taken over and is engaging in conversation in an unknown language/text.
>>
>>Sure can. Report it to google (which is the source of the spam). If enough
>>people report it, google will make the group read-only.
>>
>>Sucks for people who post through google, but they can always use
>>eternal september.
>
>
> Any tips on how to report it to google groups ?

I haven't done it myself, but folks on comp.lang.c were
successful. I suspect you need to read the message using
google groups (rather than using a NNPT client) and there
will likely be a report spam button somewhere to push.

[hub...@ccanoemail.com]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:18:43 GMT, sc...@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)

I just spent 10 minutes looking for any sort of google groups
reporting page - to no avail - they only seem interested in
criminal behaviour or child abuse or porn ..
The info that I could find just sends one around & around to
the same useless pages.
John T.

[Markem618]

Google Groups do not do anything about the spam generated from their
users, as it really does not affect the bottom line of Google.