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Re: Spam in the group

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On 12/10/2023 10:31 PM, Bob Campbell wrote:
> bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/4/2023 10:31 PM, Bob Campbell wrote:
>>> Black Epyon <Blackepyon01@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>>> Anybody with admin privileges able to ban Marry Najar, Vigdis Rupard, and
>>>> Easter Rumley? They've been spamming download links for the past couple
>>>> months. Likely bot accounts.
>>>>
>>>
>>> LOL, good one.
>>>
>>> Seriously, there are no admins here.   This is usenet.   No one is “in
>>> charge”.   Anything goes.   It’s up to you to filter out the shit.
>>>
>>
>> That's not really true.  All of the SPAM is coming from Google Groups.
>> The admins for the machines providing connections to Google should pull
>> the plug.  That's how USENET works.
> 
> You must be new to usenet.  

New?  I have been on USENET since the days it ran over POTS.

>                              Again, there are no admins here.  

Of course there are admins.  Who do you think runs the servers?

>                                                                There are no
> moderators here.  Spam has been coming from Google Groups for many years.
> Your spam is someone else’s free speech.

Free speech has nothing to do with it.

> 
> Filter it out on your end.  Or just ignore it.  No one at Google is going
> to “pull the plug” on anything just because you are offended.   It would
> take millions of complaints to Google, and there just aren’t that many
> people reading this stuff these days.

It's not Google who should pull the plug.  It's the servers who provide
Google with a connection to USENET.  I admined a major USENET site for
over 20 years (Top 20 for many of them).  There have always been rules.
And one of them was the admins responsibility to not allow SPAM coming
from their site.

Look up "USENET Death Penalty"
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/U/Usenet-Death-Penalty.html

bill

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Spam in the group Black Epyon <Blackepyon01@yahoo.ca> - 2023-12-02 07:01 -0800
  Re: Spam in the group Bob Campbell <none@none.none> - 2023-12-05 03:31 +0000
    Re: Spam in the group bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2023-12-10 12:22 -0500
      Re: Spam in the group Bob Campbell <none@none.none> - 2023-12-11 03:31 +0000
        Re: Spam in the group bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2023-12-11 10:48 -0500

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