What happened? Whatever it is, I hope it keeps on happening...

Andy

Andrew Mai <mai@ucar.edu> writes:

> What happened? Whatever it is, I hope it keeps on happening...

Interestingly, my news reader said that there were 256 unread messages
in the newsgroup, but after selecting the newsgroup, it displayed only
54 subject lines.  Suggestive of some sort of delete mechanism at work.
Spam probably upped the article count, and deletions probably left
holes in the numbering sequence, leaving only 54 to read.

Are you sure?  There was one about 4 hours ago, and several about 8 hours a=
go.

Looks more like the number was reduced enough that your newsgroups server c=
ould filter out all the rest.

Though it could be that Google Groups is now not sending the spam to Usenet=
 if it is marked as spam fast enough.

For any spammers reading this thread:  After we get enough nations of the w=
orld to declare that spammers no longer qualify as human, we can ask medica=
l researchers to list how many spammers they can use for growing whatever v=
irus they are currently doing research on.  For example, the Ebola virus.

Robert Miles

On 02/10/2012 09:42 PM, Robert Miles wrote:
 > For any spammers reading this thread:  After we get enough
 > nations of the world to declare that spammers no longer
 > qualify as human, we can ask medical researchers to list how
 > many spammers they can use for growing whatever virus they
 > are currently doing research on.  For example, the Ebola virus.

I don't really think spammers read anything. They just devote
all their time improving their 'spamming' skills...

Seneika.

On 2/10/2012 4:37 PM, Andrew Mai wrote:
> What happened? Whatever it is, I hope it keeps on happening...
>
> Andy

Looks like google groups is not propagating spam as there
is some there now.  But it is not here so cool !
    https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.fortran/topics?hl=en

Lynn

In article <jh46c7$7t1$1@speranza.aioe.org>, tholen@antispam.ham writes:

> Andrew Mai <mai@ucar.edu> writes:
> 
> > What happened? Whatever it is, I hope it keeps on happening...
> 
> Interestingly, my news reader said that there were 256 unread messages
> in the newsgroup, but after selecting the newsgroup, it displayed only
> 54 subject lines.  

Same here.

> Suggestive of some sort of delete mechanism at work.
> Spam probably upped the article count, and deletions probably left
> holes in the numbering sequence, leaving only 54 to read.

Right.

Le 10/02/2012 23:37, Andrew Mai a �crit :
> What happened? Whatever it is, I hope it keeps on happening...

You are probably using a NoCeM-aware news server.
Some spam-cleaning has been done through <news:news.lists.filters>.