From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a44d0daf7ebd554 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny03.POSTED!2099d1b7!not-for-mail Subject: Re: matt parker spams the shit out of clients and newsgroups From: "Christopher J. Henrich" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: <251020041237536644%chenrich@monmouth.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Thoth/1.7.2 (Carbon/OS X) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:37:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.153.206.24 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny03 1098722273 141.153.206.24 (Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:37:53 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:37:53 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5694 Date: 2004-10-25T16:37:53+00:00 List-Id: In article , JeffM wrote: > >Dam you and your post. > > Harvey R. Stone > > The sooner you and everyone who hates this > fires off a complaint to groups-abuse@google.com, > the faster he will be shut down. > > I just did it. > I forgot to recommend that they put a block on his IP address. > Please include this suggestion when you report him. > (This is not the 1st account with them that he has abused.) > I have been following your advice. I get form letters from google.com, the gist of which is "we're working on it." (Your check is in the mail... The bug will be fixed in a future release...) I get at most one such letter per day, even if I send them reports for each of several spams. This suggests to me that google.com has automated the process of reading and responding to complaints of abuse. We may hope that if google.com gets enough reports, especially from different people, they will be motivated to "work on it" some more. -- Chris Henrich God just doesn't fit inside a single religion.