From: dog_cow@macgui.com   
      
   Tempest wrote:   
   > I'm just curious as to why this started all the sudden and why they're   
   > spamming an old computer group.  I assume it's some bot that just blasts   
   > this out to all newsgroups, but it's still weird.   
      
   Earlier this summer I was curious and spent some time investigating, but not   
   too much time, because the way to win when you're on the receiving side of   
   spam is to spend less time than the spammer. If you're spending more time   
   fighting spam than the spammers are in sending the stuff, you're the loser.   
      
   Anyway...   
      
   I think it's less likely a bot and more likely some Italian retiree with too   
   much time on his hands. I noticed that the messages only hit certain Big-8   
   hierarchies. If you're running a bot, why not hit every newsgroup in the   
   Big-8? I also noticed that there's a handful of Google accounts. Likely the   
   guy creates new accounts every so often as old ones are terminated. He   
   likely also uses various proxies.   
      
   The fact that this guy is posting to Usenet at all says quite a lot about   
   his age, demographics, and interests.   
      
   These spam posts were ending up at my Mac GUI Usenet archive so of course I   
   added some keywords to my spam filter and his posts are no longer archived   
   at all on Mac GUI.   
      
   But there was a time when they were.... and I received perhaps half a dozen   
   or so "take down" requests which purportedly came from an Italian law firm.   
   So there are two sides to this story. On the receiving side of these Italian   
   spams is some person who would prefer that these spams not be published at   
   all! And this guy is using a Google search (I presume) to find web sites   
   such as mine which were archiving these messages.   
      
   Now I don't care whether his Italian law firm is legitimately representing   
   this guy or not. The messages are off-topic in every newsgroup, serve no   
   useful purpose to anyone, and I have no desire to pay my ISP for the server   
   space to store this junk. So I've deleted all the messages without question.   
      
   But like I said, the way to win the spam fighting battle is to be the person   
   who spends the least amount of time at it.   
      
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