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  • Re: https://loanslucre.com/

    From The Nomad@3:770/3 to All on Tue Nov 19 10:57:10 2024
    On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:55:13 +0000, paydayquid@gmail.com (paydayquid)
    wrote:

    I thought we'd got rid of google spam

    Avpx

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  • From Andy Burns@3:770/3 to The Nomad on Tue Nov 19 11:06:57 2024
    The Nomad wrote:

    On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:55:13 +0000, paydayquid@gmail.com (paydayquid)
    wrote:

    I thought we'd got rid of google spam
    seems to originate from user "paydayquid" at rocksolidBBS, someone ought
    to make "Retro Guy" aware...

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  • From Retro Guy@3:770/3 to Andy Burns on Tue Nov 19 04:21:32 2024
    On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:06:57 +0000
    Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

    The Nomad wrote:

    On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:55:13 +0000, paydayquid@gmail.com (paydayquid) wrote:

    I thought we'd got rid of google spam
    seems to originate from user "paydayquid" at rocksolidBBS, someone ought
    to make "Retro Guy" aware...

    Thanks for notifying me!

    I have issued a NoCeM for the three articles and banned the user. Whether your servers honor the NoCeM or not is up to them.

    (Somewhat) fortunately, this happened just hours after I placed new user limits on number of posts. It would require the user to spend over an hour to make the three posts they did.

    Note: Spam can be reduced, but never completely eliminated. Please don't compare the occasional 3 spam to Google's wave of tens of thousands per day.

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    Retro Guy <retroguy@i2pn2.org>

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  • From Grant Taylor@3:770/3 to The Nomad on Tue Nov 19 17:51:12 2024
    On 11/19/24 04:57, The Nomad wrote:
    I thought we'd got rid of google spam

    Google severed their link to Usenet.

    But that doesn't prevent people from using Gmail addresses on other news servers.

    The amount of spam containing @gmail.com addresses has fallen through
    the floor. Thankfully.

    And with responsible admins like Retro Guy, when a bad actor does use a non-Google server, well they get evicted. :-D



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    Grant. . . .

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  • From Andy Burns@3:770/3 to Grant Taylor on Wed Nov 20 00:14:50 2024
    Grant Taylor wrote:

    with responsible admins like Retro Guy, when a bad actor does use a non- Google server, well they get evicted.

    Especially if (as I took it) they're rate limited how fast they can post messages, the damage is limited and hopefully the cost in their time is
    too high and they just go home.

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  • From Grant Taylor@3:770/3 to Andy Burns on Tue Nov 19 21:49:09 2024
    On 11/19/24 18:14, Andy Burns wrote:
    Especially if (as I took it) they're rate limited how fast they can post messages, the damage is limited and hopefully the cost in their time is
    too high and they just go home.

    One can hope.

    But please forgive me for not holding my breath.



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    Grant. . . .

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  • From candycanearter07@3:770/3 to Andy Burns on Wed Nov 20 17:50:08 2024
    Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote at 00:14 this Wednesday (GMT):
    Grant Taylor wrote:

    with responsible admins like Retro Guy, when a bad actor does use a non-
    Google server, well they get evicted.

    Especially if (as I took it) they're rate limited how fast they can post messages, the damage is limited and hopefully the cost in their time is
    too high and they just go home.


    Who knows why they even do it? Seems like it'd be way more effort than
    it's worth to me.
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    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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