I almost hate to say the name out loud. Those people? who have been posting political messages and clogging not only our nice little stitchery group, but our personal inboxes for those of us who get the digest email. Any thoughts? Deb
Get a newsreader and stop reading Usenet newsgroups through Google.
If your ISP doesn't provide a news server you can get an account through
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Frankly, I like reading through Google Groups. There must be some way to run the evil doer off.
Donna in Virginia
We have been round this mulberry bush many times over the years. Basicly we are an unmoderated group which ***anyone*** can join, leave, read, post. etc. This means anyone, at any time, can post a message on rctn, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. If you dont like this, the best thing is to just ignore any posts that you find obnoxious. HTH.
I have to say that the only reason I started reading RCTN again is because of google groups. I'm getting the group fed into google reader along with my blogs. A newsreader involves another application just for one group, and that's not happening. I guess I need to investigate if google has any spam reporting method for groups (and complain to them if they don't).
Allura
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Start lots of needlework posts and organize the posts by topic list. If you organize by topic list our little pest will soon disappear into the oblivion of the 2nd page. Dora
Yeah, I just wish google groups had better filtering tools on the user end, you know?
FYI, I checked the spammer's profile, intending to report it, and google's already banned them. Doesn't help, though, since they keep making new accounts.
It's a shame I can't get usenet to integrate to MS Outlook (only Outlook Express). There's a tool to do it, but it doesn't update correctly. If I could, at least I could get K9 to filter the spam for me.
Allura
I participate in a group on the subject of Ponds. Not so long ago, they had to create a moderated group because they had some posters who were abusive. As Allura pointed out, all they have to do is change their email address and continue their nasty tactics. I suppose as a last resort, this group could do that, if there were some who would consent to be moderators.
I noticed on some of the M15 postings (both recent and older) that if I clicked reply - just to see what there was to see - that the offending poster was posting simulatenously to the following groups which seem unrelated to each other: alt.thebird.copwatch,uk.people.support.arthritis,alt.video.dvd,comp.os.cpm,rec.crafts.textiles.needlework,uk.misc
I find that to be rather curious and I wonder why these groups are being targeted...\
Deb
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alt.thebird.copwatch,uk.people.support.arthritis,alt.video.dvd,comp.os.cpm,rec.crafts.textiles.needlework,uk.misc
It was also posted on a moderated Jewish Humor group I sometimes look at. Apparently they know how to get in directly without going through the moderator.
I think if you ignore it long enough, and report it when possible, it will have to go away.
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alt.thebird.copwatch,uk.people.support.arthritis,alt.video.dvd,comp.os.cpm,rec.crafts.textiles.needlework,uk.misc
Probably, ignoring it is the only practical answer, as you say. I guess I have to admit it annoyed me enough that I commented. I'll ignore it. Deb
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Whoever it is has turned up off and on for more than three years now. Clearly they are smarter than the servers with this spam. Give up, use your killfile !!!
I only know they persist because others write about them.
They aren't just posting on rctn, they post on multiple groups in multiple countries.
On a slightly off topic, I noticed that by your post, Lucretia, there was an orange banner that says "Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived. This message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Sep 2, 2:48 pm)." What does that mean and how do you do that?
Deb
You need this in your header:
X-No-Archive: yes
(must be absolutely the first thing in your message, if you can't edit your header)
However, the banner is a product of the newsreader. Some archives respect x-no-archive, and some ignore it completely. So, it is not any sort of guarantee that your message will not be archived *somewhere*. A lot of the websites that populate their "forums" with Usenet posts have no interest in following the rules.
Also, if anyone quotes your message and doesn't also x-no-archive
*their* post, then your words also live on in perpetuity. So, when you responded with the above question, you have ensured that the x-no-archived message will live on ;-) Which, of course, is what happens. Proper netiquette is not to quote the x-no-archived message (or at least trim severely so that there's no identifying information), but a lot of the time you don't even *know* that a message is x-no-archive'd because most newsreaders don't display a banner like that. And, of course, most people don't know how to x-no-archive their posts successfully in the first place.So, bottom line is that you can do it, and it will keep some services from archiving your posts, but one way or another there will still be plenty of copies floating around.
Best wishes, Ericka
alt.thebird.copwatch,uk.people.support.arthritis,alt.video.dvd,comp.os.cpm,rec.crafts.textiles.needlework,uk.misc
He hit just about every group I'm accustomed to reading. I post thru google and one of these days will make a change, lazy me. The spam for cheap handbags and such is equally annoying, but at least they are easy to spot with their terybul speln an gramer.
Say-- we could all post a separate 'don't read' post, to push him off the page, so to speak.
Yes, what she says lol
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