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On 02/03/2024 09:57 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:

On 02/03/2024 09:47 AM, Dlzc wrote:

On Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 11:37:28rC>AM UTC-6, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>> On 01/30/2024 12:54 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:

... how to match the posting-account to then determine
whether it's a sockpuppet-farm or what, and basically
about sending them up.

Its too late to save Google Groups front end.

They post and another account posts a follow-up on the same message
within less than a minute. It is human-based based on the pace of
posting. It IS a sock-puppet farm.

David A. Smith

Ah, the sockpuppet.

"Hi sockpuppet how are you today?"
"The guy hiding under here has his arm entirely up me, I'm not doing this."

Clearly the posts themselves are generated by a mail-merge, which
you're probably familiar with or I am as "here's a list of addresses,
and here's a little document with placeholders, the templates
get merged the substitution placeholders interpolated their
expression to the matching parameters, then print that out
the printer but be careful printing the labels in the special
stick-on label paper in the printer and you wouldn't want that
poor quality adhesive would result jamming your printer".

Anyways though it's clear that every now and then one of the
parameters goes missing and it shows "Template" or "Missing"
or whatever, it's just a usual sort of blast-fax mail-merge setup.

Yet, here it's as what appears to be a ton of different compromised
Google accounts, as to whether they're associated with the names
and emails of the posts at all, is unclear. So, there's an idea to
make a little database matching up posting-account according to
the Google G2 injector that appears to be injecting them to Usenet,
helping illustrate that such-and-such accounts are at best compromised
and probably collusive, where of course we wouldn't want the innocents
they may be to suffer just because their account is compromised. (Or,
....)

Or, "gee, thanks OAuth".

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