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Re: How to fix spam on this group.

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On Oct 5, 2:51 am, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote:
>     If you look at the message headers for the "prescription" and
> "naked" spams, they're coming into Google Groups from a very small
> number of points.  One entry point was a Comcast customer in
> West Virginia.  I wrote to Comcast, and spam from that IP seems
> to have stopped.
>
>     The next worst offender is a Road Runner account.
> Look at the line:
>
> Injection-Info: dm9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com;
> posting-host=24.163.127.116;
> posting-account=DKJxlgoAAADWiLPCKKQ3ODU2U5wum67n
>
> That's coming in from a Road Runner account in North Carolina.
>
> cpe-024-163-127-116.nc.res.rr.com [24.163.127.116]
>
> So I just sent a message to "ab...@rr.com", telling them they have
> a compromised user machine on their network. I also sent a message
> to the hosting service where they're using a compromised machine.
>
> If a few more people do this, we'll knock off the spamming machines.
> There aren't that many of them.

If you can advise how to track down such machines (e.g. header
information to use and how to convert that to the hosting service and
account), I'd be more than happy to help.

Incidentally, the GG interface is becoming so broken that I'm not sure
I'll keep using it anyway.


--
Rob

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How to fix spam on this group. John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-10-04 09:51 -0700
  Re: How to fix spam on this group. RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2011-10-04 16:18 -0700
    Re: How to fix spam on this group. John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-10-05 14:22 -0700
      Re: How to fix spam on this group. Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-05 15:02 -0700
      Re: How to fix spam on this group. RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2011-10-05 17:43 -0700
      Re: How to fix spam on this group. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2011-10-05 21:31 -0700
      Re: How to fix spam on this group. RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2011-10-08 11:12 +1000
        Re: How to fix spam on this group. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2011-10-09 15:24 -0700
          Re: How to fix spam on this group. RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2011-10-09 16:45 -0700
            Re: How to fix spam on this group. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2011-10-09 22:43 -0700
              Re: How to fix spam on this group. RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2011-10-10 06:46 -0700
            Re: How to fix spam on this group. Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-10-10 10:21 +0100
              Re: How to fix spam on this group. RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2011-10-10 07:03 -0700
                Re: How to fix spam on this group. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2011-10-15 12:14 -0700

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