From: magnusfalkirk@yahoo.com   
      
   Tempest wrote:   
   >>>As for the original post about "David's site" ... posting a spam   
   >>>advertising message for a website as a complaint about spam messages   
   >>>seems rather hypocritical.   
   >   
   > There's nothing wrong with offering a solution to a problem.  I quite   
   > happy   
   > he did actually.   
   >   
   >>>Usenet is not a free advertising space for other people to use for   
   >>>anything.   
   >   
   > You're kidding right?   
   >   
   >   
   > I gave up on reporting those messages to Google after a while.  They   
   > seemed   
   > to stop for a bit over the summer but now they're back in force.  I guess   
   > I'll just have to migrate over to Mac GUI then as the google groups   
   > version   
   > is quickly becoming unusable.   
   >   
   > I assume that these are just spam bots targeting every usenet forum and   
   > they're not targeting the Apple II forum specifically.  I wonder if all   
   > the   
   > remaining usenet groups will have a similar problem?   
   >   
      
   As far as I've seen, using Google Groups for reading the different Apple II   
   newsgroups, it is just comp.sys.apple2 that is getting spammed by all the   
   foreign language posts. I don't know if this is happening to Atari and   
   Commodore groups as well.   
      
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   half of you half as well as you deserve". - Bilbo Baggins, Lord of the   
   Rings, Fellowship of the Ring   
      
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