Off-Topic SPAM

[RSD99]

There is someone posting Off-Topic and out of charter pseudo-religious SPAM
to many USENET forums through Google Groups. He/she has posted three or
four copies of this spam per day to several of the photographic and
graphics related groups. He is identified as (e-mail address removed)

Please block his access to USENET through Google Groups.

Included is the complete "message source" from one of those postings.

= = = = = Begin Spam Message Source = = = = =
Path:
nwrddc02.gnilink.net!cyclone2.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!
news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mai
l
From: (e-mail address removed)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scanners
Subject: (",) Do You Want To Know For Sure You Are Going To Heaven?
Date: 21 Mar 2005 03:08:38 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 2
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.160.207.111
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1111403323 4521 127.0.0.1 (21 Mar 2005 11:08:43
GMT)
X-Complaints-To: (e-mail address removed)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:08:43 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: G2/0.2
Complaints-To: (e-mail address removed)
Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=172.160.207.111;
posting-account=HA46dw0AAAB_aHhf-FG6-QwNniq-lksZ
Xref: cyclone1.gnilink.net comp.periphs.scanners:68862
X-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:08:43 EST (nwrddc02.gnilink.net)

http://www.want-to-be-sure.blogspot.com << Click On Link

 

[J. Teske]

He is posting to virtually every group graphic or otherwise. I see him
in musical, ham radio and others. When someone bitches, he just ups
the number after the "ron". There is probably little defense.

Jon Teske

 

[RSD99]

Yes ... that actually was a 'CC' of a posting I sent to Google Groups.

Results: Just about as expected ... received an email that said

"...
Thank you for your note. Google does not regularly monitor or censor
postings sent to Google Groups, but we do try to prevent wide-scale spam
and other forms of Usenet abuse. Please be assured that the information
you sent to us is being collected and taken into account. While we
understand how annoying off-topic posts can be, we aren't able to pursue
most complaints we receive about them. We are using the information you
provide to make large-scale improvements in preventing abuse. We
appreciate your help in our efforts to increase the quality of Google
Groups.
...."

HeHeHeHeHe ...

 

[Ben Bradley]

Yes ... that actually was a 'CC' of a posting I sent to Google Groups.

Complain to blogspot.com which is hosting the website he's
spamming, there's some contact webform there somewhere. Here it is:

http://www.blogger.com/problem.g?skiplogin=yes

I reported the spam via that form and got this response:

Hi there,

Thanks for writing us regarding this possible Terms of Service violation.
We will examine it soon and take action as necessary.

-Blogger Support

If more people reported it, indicating how widespread the Usenet
spamming is, perhaps the blogger folks would actually remove the site.

 

[RSD99]

Actually ... I've heard (through other groups) that "Google Groups"
habitually totally *ignores* complaints of this nature.

Go figure ...

 

[Ben Bradley]

Yes ... that actually was a 'CC' of a posting I sent to Google Groups.

Complain to blogspot.com which is hosting the website he's
spamming, there's some contact webform there somewhere. Here it is:

http://www.blogger.com/problem.g?skiplogin=yes

I reported the spam via that form and got this response:

Hi there,

Thanks for writing us regarding this possible Terms of Service violation.
We will examine it soon and take action as necessary.

-Blogger Support

If more people reported it, indicating how widespread the Usenet
spamming is, perhaps the blogger folks would actually remove the site.

 

[Ben Bradley]

Yes ... that actually was a 'CC' of a posting I sent to Google Groups.

Complain to blogspot.com which is hosting the website he's
spamming, there's some contact webform there somewhere. Here it is:

http://www.blogger.com/problem.g?skiplogin=yes

I reported the spam via that form and got this response:

Hi there,

Thanks for writing us regarding this possible Terms of Service violation.
We will examine it soon and take action as necessary.

-Blogger Support

If more people reported it, indicating how widespread the Usenet
spamming is, perhaps the blogger folks would actually remove the site.

 

[RSD99]

Only "problem" is that he's changed his "name" and "subject" in the last
few days. He's now using

From: (e-mail address removed)
Subject: The Greatest News Ever!

There are apparently two people doing this ... and the "first" one is now
posting as shown in the 'Source' below.

Guess we'll just have to fire up the old 'KillFile' ...



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Path:
nwrddc03.gnilink.net!cyclone2.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!
news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mai
l
From: (e-mail address removed)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scanners
Subject: The Greatest News Ever!
Date: 28 Mar 2005 15:00:36 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 2
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.157.175.173
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1112050841 6688 127.0.0.1 (28 Mar 2005 23:00:41
GMT)
X-Complaints-To: (e-mail address removed)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:00:41 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: G2/0.2
Complaints-To: (e-mail address removed)
Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=172.157.175.173;
posting-account=BNWHbw0AAAAQsoLJ7BkVgXduLvV2cJVq
Xref: cyclone1.gnilink.net comp.periphs.scanners:69061
X-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:00:41 EST (nwrddc03.gnilink.net)

http://www.jcil.blogspot.com << The Greatest News Ever!






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