So much spam, so little time...

On Oct 21, 1:36*pm, JeffM <jef...@email.com> wrote:
> rickman wrote:
> >Is Google every going to do a damn thing to eliminate all this
> >spam??? *I have be flagging spam in this group for weeks
> >and have not seen any sign that is it having any impact on the situation..
> >[...]I am thinking they are just
> >giving us something to keep us busy
> >so that we don't complain so much... a pacifier, as it were.
>
> The "feature" existed long ago.
> They removed it and recently put it back
> (in a more-visible location).

I was only a couple of weeks ago that I would see flagged spam
disappear from the yahoo group in a day or two. Now I had to go back
to Oct 5 to see the spam deleted much less prevented.

Google does such a good job with spam in their email. I don't get why
they don't care about spam here.

Rick

rickman wrote:
>Google does such a good job with spam in their email.
>I don't get why they don't care about spam here.

I'm convinced that
Google Groups is where Google sends its losers and rejects.

On Oct 22, 5:46*am, JeffM <jef...@email.com> wrote:
> rickman wrote:
> >Google does such a good job with spam in their email.
> >I don't get why they don't care about spam here.
>
> I'm convinced that
> Google Groups is where Google sends its losers and rejects.

It definitely looks that way, I'll second that.

Dimiter

>>rickman wrote:
>>>Google does such a good job with spam in their email.
>>>I don't get why they don't care about spam here.
>>>
>JeffM wrote:
>>I'm convinced that
>>Google Groups is where Google sends its losers and rejects.
>>
Didi wrote:
>It definitely looks that way, I'll second that.

I'm not terribly impressed with ANY of Google these days.
I went to Froogle this morning (google.com/products)
and they've screwed that up:
Put in a minimum price and it *ignores* it;
put in a Boolean NOT and it *ignores* that.

In addition:
Every time they change the main/original search engine,
their cached pages render differently than the previous iteration.

In the Address Bar,
I used to be able to use hyphens and/or periods as separators
and the parser knew I was making PHRASES
and knew the difference between the 2 syntaxes
(and I didn't have to use the verbose %22+ thing everywhere,
crapping up otherwise terse, human-readable URLs).

You would think that the engineers in the company
would develop a test suite of exemplars
that would be a baseline that would indicate
if they've broken something that USED to work just fine.

It appears that the MBAs have taken over the joint
and their techies have become complacent.

I think I am going to have to give up on c.a.e on google. The spam is
a PITA and it ticks me off that the same spammers continually post
which would be so easy to stop if Google just made even a minimal
effort.

Rick

On 2009-10-23, rickman <> wrote:
> I think I am going to have to give up on c.a.e on google. The spam is
> a PITA and it ticks me off that the same spammers continually post
> which would be so easy to stop if Google just made even a minimal
> effort.
>
> Rick

I am currently using eternal-september.org along with slrn to read Usenet.

I am seeing small amounts of spam in comp.arch.embedded, but certainly not
large amounts of spam, so you may want to try switching to using your own
newsreader.

Simon.

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