Re: Spam in NGS

jeanne (tlj...@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU) wrote:

>Colin, in case you missed the particular SPAM in this NG I was
>refering to, I will refer you to JRO's *repost* of it....
>SPAM is SPAM. Whether as UCE *or* polluting the NGS. I will refer
>you to the reply I got from this particular spammers ISP also.
>It *was* a revenge SPAM in the NGS. 
>
>-jeanne
>Fight Spam! Join CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email)
>  http://www.cauce.org/ Tell your Congresscritters how Spam mailings
>hurt you. Help protect genuine Internet commerce: Outlaw UCE Spamming!


OK, thanks for all that.  Whilst CAUCE and other Anti-spam movements
and methods are, hopefully, doing their best the real answer lies with 
"Your Very Own" Systems Administrators at Your Very Own Net Access Site.

They are the people who can help you most and are able to minimise
both email _and_ newsgroup spam.

They are also the very people who can put a stop to it at source.

It is counter-productive to complain and criticize _other peoples_
System Admins and Access Sites...that only generates animosity.
Nobody, but Nobody, likes criticism and complaints levelled against
them and that is a big failing of current Ant-Spammming activity.

Every Net user should and must talk nicely to their Sysadmins.
When Net begin to do just that then real progress will be made.

I am almost totally convinced now that newsgroup spamming is
deliberate action by individals with Net expertise to change and
control newsgroups in some way...and little serious newsgroup spam
is the work of mere pranksters, juveniles and vandals.

Proof ?  I have yet to see any tracking down of the originator
of a newsgroup spammer or binary bomber...they are too clever
and expert in avoiding detection.



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