The spam is out of hand. Contact the Usenet Big-8 management and ask them to block google-groups from posting to the Big-8 Usenet hierarchies. It is the only way to get Google to do anything. This may be an inconvenience to some but there are other ways of connecting to usenet for serious users. If Google responds to the Big-8 managements satisfaction, it can be reinstated. We need the Big-8 to act as an advocate for its usenet users. uboard@big-8.org. https://www.big-8.org
OT: Ask Big-8 to block Google
Started by ●November 3, 2023
Reply by ●November 7, 20232023-11-07
I've (hopefully) temporarily blocked any post that has a GMail address in the "From:" field. It's the only way I found to kill the clutter. In article <212674@dontemail.com>, dont@emailme.com says...> The spam is out of hand. > Contact the Usenet Big-8 management and ask them to block > google-groups from posting to the Big-8 Usenet hierarchies. > It is the only way to get Google to do anything. This may be > an inconvenience to some but there are other ways of connecting > to usenet for serious users. If Google responds to the Big-8 > managements satisfaction, it can be reinstated. We need the > Big-8 to act as an advocate for its usenet users. > > uboard@big-8.org. > > https://www.big-8.org > >
Reply by ●November 7, 20232023-11-07
The arsehole WangoTango <Asgard24@mindspring.com> persisting in being an Off-topic troll... -- WangoTango <Asgard24@mindspring.com> wrote:> Path: not-for-mail > NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 23:58:03 +0000 > From: WangoTango <Asgard24@mindspring.com> > Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design > Subject: Re: OT: Ask Big-8 to block Google > Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 18:58:02 -0500 > Message-ID: <MPG.3fb4991635590ccf98c1f4@news.east.earthlink.net> > References: <212674@dontemail.com> > Organization: Very Little > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.60.2060 > Lines: 20 > X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com > NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.237.145.220 > X-Trace: sv3-mm7uVo7TIlGx9H5iimVg+D8zju9w00XfDFqjn2aFdzim43ItBLqbFluVun4IKll7bhFkDocHGkcWpfM!/ijyhwMK62Wujl5d4m4nitAiMsLoTKhum9NkHllsWN8lgKOj+2yjTNPsBiwAFGrj8PYwDWX7ibUx!sQFXRdMiSr/b1l7j156cbqtZiSE1MAoXHM4Hoq1rwQ== > X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers > X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly > X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 > Bytes: 1811 > X-Received-Bytes: 2096
Reply by ●November 8, 20232023-11-08
On Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 2:49:21 PM UTC+11, a a wrote:> The arsehole WangoTango <Asga...@mindspring.com> persisting in being an Off-topic troll...As usual, a a doesn't say why he considers Wango Tango to be an off-topic troll, which makes a a the off-topic troll here, as he has been reminding us in heroic volume for months. He's been an off-topic troll since he started posting here. He might have started off thinking that he had something to contribute, but his posts weren't seen as valuable contributions by people who post here regularly, and - rather than recognising that he didn't understand what a valuable contribution might look like - he decided he was being persecuted (which he was, but he had earned all the persecution he got) and started calling us all various unpleasant kinds of trolls. It is spam, and I've taken to making his posts as spam, but Google hasn't got around to blocking him yet, or the Indonesian gambling site ads ether. They claim to take spam seriously, and used to discard it from time to time, but seem to have been overwhelmed recently. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Reply by ●November 8, 20232023-11-08
The idiot Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> persisting in being an Off-topic troll... -- Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:> X-Received: by 2002:a0c:e7ce:0:b0:66c:fa82:867a with SMTP id c14-20020a0ce7ce000000b0066cfa82867amr28320qvo.11.1699448266837; > Wed, 08 Nov 2023 04:57:46 -0800 (PST) > X-Received: by 2002:a9d:734a:0:b0:6b9:a955:43bc with SMTP id > l10-20020a9d734a000000b006b9a95543bcmr423143otk.3.1699448266532; Wed, 08 Nov > 2023 04:57:46 -0800 (PST) > Path: not-for-mail > Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design > Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 04:57:46 -0800 (PST) > In-Reply-To: <ZyD2N.802380$2Glf.345768@usenetxs.com> > Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.102.83.245; posting-account=SJ46pgoAAABuUDuHc5uDiXN30ATE-zi- > NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.102.83.245 > References: <212674@dontemail.com> <MPG.3fb4991635590ccf98c1f4@news.east.earthlink.net> > <ZyD2N.802380$2Glf.345768@usenetxs.com> > User-Agent: G2/1.0 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Message-ID: <d997300b-c015-4001-9a86-acca0524109bn@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: Off Topic Troll Alert! was: Re: OT: Ask Big-8 to block Google > From: Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> > Injection-Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 12:57:46 +0000 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > X-Received-Bytes: 2521
Reply by ●November 8, 20232023-11-08
The arsehole Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> persisting in being an Off-topic troll... -- Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:> X-Received: by 2002:a0c:e7ce:0:b0:66c:fa82:867a with SMTP id c14-20020a0ce7ce000000b0066cfa82867amr28320qvo.11.1699448266837; > Wed, 08 Nov 2023 04:57:46 -0800 (PST) > X-Received: by 2002:a9d:734a:0:b0:6b9:a955:43bc with SMTP id > l10-20020a9d734a000000b006b9a95543bcmr423143otk.3.1699448266532; Wed, 08 Nov > 2023 04:57:46 -0800 (PST) > Path: not-for-mail > Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design > Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 04:57:46 -0800 (PST) > In-Reply-To: <ZyD2N.802380$2Glf.345768@usenetxs.com> > Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.102.83.245; posting-account=SJ46pgoAAABuUDuHc5uDiXN30ATE-zi- > NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.102.83.245 > References: <212674@dontemail.com> <MPG.3fb4991635590ccf98c1f4@news.east.earthlink.net> > <ZyD2N.802380$2Glf.345768@usenetxs.com> > User-Agent: G2/1.0 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Message-ID: <d997300b-c015-4001-9a86-acca0524109bn@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: Off Topic Troll Alert! was: Re: OT: Ask Big-8 to block Google > From: Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> > Injection-Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 12:57:46 +0000 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > X-Received-Bytes: 2521
Reply by ●November 8, 20232023-11-08
On Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 7:57:51 AM UTC-5, Anthony William Sloman wrote:> On Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 2:49:21 PM UTC+11, a a wrote: > > The arsehole WangoTango <Asga...@mindspring.com> persisting in being an Off-topic troll... > As usual, a a doesn't say why he considers Wango Tango to be an off-topic troll, which makes a a the off-topic troll here, as he has been reminding us in heroic volume for months. > > He's been an off-topic troll since he started posting here. He might have started off thinking that he had something to contribute, but his posts weren't seen as valuable contributions by people who post here regularly, and - rather than recognising that he didn't understand what a valuable contribution might look like - he decided he was being persecuted (which he was, but he had earned all the persecution he got) and started calling us all various unpleasant kinds of trolls. > > It is spam, and I've taken to making his posts as spam, but Google hasn't got around to blocking him yet, or the Indonesian gambling site ads ether. > > They claim to take spam seriously, and used to discard it from time to time, but seem to have been overwhelmed recently.Well at least he got off the 'coronary' sun activity craze...and linking government scientific agency websites that flatly contradict everything he says and believes.> > -- > Bill Sloman, Sydney
Reply by ●November 9, 20232023-11-09
On Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 3:39:45 AM UTC+11, Fred Bloggs wrote:> On Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 7:57:51 AM UTC-5, Anthony William Sloman wrote: > > On Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 2:49:21 PM UTC+11, a a wrote: > > > The arsehole WangoTango <Asga...@mindspring.com> persisting in being an Off-topic troll... > > As usual, a a doesn't say why he considers Wango Tango to be an off-topic troll, which makes a a the off-topic troll here, as he has been reminding us in heroic volume for months. > > > > He's been an off-topic troll since he started posting here. He might have started off thinking that he had something to contribute, but his posts weren't seen as valuable contributions by people who post here regularly, and - rather than recognising that he didn't understand what a valuable contribution might look like - he decided he was being persecuted (which he was, but he had earned all the persecution he got) and started calling us all various unpleasant kinds of trolls. > > > > It is spam, and I've taken to making his posts as spam, but Google hasn't got around to blocking him yet, or the Indonesian gambling site ads ether. > > > > They claim to take spam seriously, and used to discard it from time to time, but seem to have been overwhelmed recently. > > Well at least he got off the 'coronary' sun activity craze...and linking government scientific agency websites that flatly contradict everything he says and believes.At that stage he was a least trying to post informative content, or perhaps merely trying to look as if he were. Now he's just positing his own personal - remarkably ill-informed - opinion. In real life he may have gotten florid enough to qualify for a spell in a mental hospital. Flyguy has been quiet recently, which probably means that he has finally been put away. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Reply by ●November 9, 20232023-11-09
The idiot Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> persisting in being an Off-topic troll... -- Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:> X-Received: by 2002:ac8:5391:0:b0:419:cd57:89c3 with SMTP id x17-20020ac85391000000b00419cd5789c3mr155676qtp.2.1699502630084; > Wed, 08 Nov 2023 20:03:50 -0800 (PST) > X-Received: by 2002:a17:90a:c505:b0:27c:f438:70a4 with SMTP id > k5-20020a17090ac50500b0027cf43870a4mr110410pjt.5.1699502629274; Wed, 08 Nov > 2023 20:03:49 -0800 (PST) > Path: not-for-mail > Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design > Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 20:03:48 -0800 (PST) > In-Reply-To: <cd39b829-cb8a-4826-b17b-bc990a40add7n@googlegroups.com> > Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.102.83.245; posting-account=SJ46pgoAAABuUDuHc5uDiXN30ATE-zi- > NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.102.83.245 > References: <212674@dontemail.com> <MPG.3fb4991635590ccf98c1f4@news.east.earthlink.net> > <ZyD2N.802380$2Glf.345768@usenetxs.com> <d997300b-c015-4001-9a86-acca0524109bn@googlegroups.com> > <cd39b829-cb8a-4826-b17b-bc990a40add7n@googlegroups.com> > User-Agent: G2/1.0 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Message-ID: <bcfaa1e6-4465-4ecc-85f0-9caf01ba4910n@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: Off Topic Troll Alert! was: Re: OT: Ask Big-8 to block Google > From: Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> > Injection-Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2023 04:03:50 +0000 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > X-Received-Bytes: 3510
Reply by ●November 9, 20232023-11-09
The arsehole Fred Bloggs <bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> persisting in being an Off-topic troll... -- Fred Bloggs <bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:> X-Received: by 2002:ac8:66c2:0:b0:41b:826a:3a2b with SMTP id m2-20020ac866c2000000b0041b826a3a2bmr40143qtp.11.1699461580826; > Wed, 08 Nov 2023 08:39:40 -0800 (PST) > X-Received: by 2002:a05:6870:c68c:b0:1e9:a0b3:1cce with SMTP id > cv12-20020a056870c68c00b001e9a0b31ccemr881808oab.2.1699461580450; Wed, 08 Nov > 2023 08:39:40 -0800 (PST) > Path: not-for-mail > Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design > Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 08:39:40 -0800 (PST) > In-Reply-To: <d997300b-c015-4001-9a86-acca0524109bn@googlegroups.com> > Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2601:5cc:4701:5250:d94e:2e33:8a0b:1883; > posting-account=iGtwSwoAAABNNwPORfvAs6OM4AR9GRHt > NNTP-Posting-Host: 2601:5cc:4701:5250:d94e:2e33:8a0b:1883 > References: <212674@dontemail.com> <MPG.3fb4991635590ccf98c1f4@news.east.earthlink.net> > <ZyD2N.802380$2Glf.345768@usenetxs.com> <d997300b-c015-4001-9a86-acca0524109bn@googlegroups.com> > User-Agent: G2/1.0 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Message-ID: <cd39b829-cb8a-4826-b17b-bc990a40add7n@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: Off Topic Troll Alert! was: Re: OT: Ask Big-8 to block Google > From: Fred Bloggs <bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> > Injection-Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 16:39:40 +0000 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > X-Received-Bytes: 2970