From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2018-05-20 09:08:24 +0000, John Hill said:   
      
   > Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sat, 19 May 2018 11:27:42 +0200, Athel Cornish-Bowden   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2018-05-18 23:27:13 +0000, MB said:   
   >>>> It's like EMail SPAM, I try to reduce it but you can never eliminate   
   >>>> completely and you can spend too much time worrying about it when   
   >>>> sometimes best to just ignore it.   
   >>>   
   >>> Around 1999 someone pointed out that creating a computer virus required   
   >>> a lot of skill, but circulating warnings about computer viruses was   
   >>> very easy!   
   >>   
   >> In this case I suspect that it is more than just spam. It's a   
   >> concerted attempt to take over this newsgroup and use it for a   
   >> different purpose.   
   >>   
   >> Someone is TELLING people that they can use newsgroups like   
   >> soc.genealogy.britain and soc.history as a kind of contact centre for   
   >> romantic/sexual meetups, and they need to be told not to. Maybe 10%   
   >> are spammers, the others are ones who have been drawn to the spam like   
   >> a honeypot. They haver been told to come here, so they do.   
   >>   
   >> It would be good if we could find out who is telling them, but the   
   >> longer we ignore it, the worse it will get. It's time to push back,   
   >> and tell everyone who posts an off-topic message that this is the   
   >> wrong place to do so.   
   >>   
   >   
   > IMHO this flood of spam is being posted by one or more bots, and replies   
   > will not be monitored.   
      
   I agree.   
   >   
   > So protesting replies will not be observed by the originators and will   
   > have no effect whatsoever.   
      
   With that, too.   
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   athel   
      
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