From: eriknoc@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 5:57:28 PM UTC-5, D Finnigan wrote:   
   > 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 spams is some person who would prefer that these spams not be published at   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.   
   >   
   > --   
   > ]DF$   
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   I've been reporting these to Google as spam.  It removes them on my end.  Not   
   sure if it removes them for everyone else though.  I haven't been in here for   
   a week or 2 though.  I'm gonna do another round of reporting right now.   
      
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