It IS a strange kind of spam flood, for sure. We are usually spared this
type of thing.

There have been only two spammers responsible for most of this: the M15
persona and the spamvertiser who is pushing us to visit all those
blogspot.com blogs that do nothing but draw attention to blogspot.com.
(there are a relatively few others) The M15 guy seems to have gone back on
his medications and that really only leaves the one disruptive blogspot.com
spamvertiser. Blogspot dude keeps changing his email ID so anybody using a
simple filter based on this header field will not be able to block him out.

He is posting in many other newsgroups too. I have been monitoring a few
internet abuse newsgroups and it looks like a great many others are working
to figure out how to get his (the blogspot.com one) accounts cancelled. He
seems to operating from a new but mis-configured server at shaw.ca. AND
Shaw.ca's abuse desk is not cooperating to shut him down. In fact it seems
to be completely unmanned. blogspot dude is mailing from yahoo.com
web-based mail account from his shaw.ca residential account.

(Blogspot.com is owned by GOOGLE and I find it interesting that Google
groups does filter out his posts because they are not showing up there. You
could read rgo from Google groups and never see any of this, but that does
not work for rgo.

Personally I don't know of any way to stop them except to evolve better ways
to filter what my newsreader draws off the server. Outlook Express (the one
you use) is not good for this purpose at all. Especially since the poster
keeps changing his ID.. A program that allows you to filter based on body
text or other consistent headers in his posts would be ideal. I was
experimenting with one called "Gravity" but there are several out there.
None of them seem to have filters that are very easy for the non-computer
literate to use....especially the Microsoft windows people.

One of the big problems I am just starting to understand is that in order to
filter based on body text, I have to have already downloaded the message I
don't want to see. But it can be done.

I would be interested in what pakrat has to say because he seems to be on
the inside of IT stuff looking out at the rest of us. I looked into his
newsreader "slrn" and my mind boggled. :-)

Patience is required. Certainly a direct attack will do nothing, IMHO. If
it were only possible to mobilize all internet users to stop using Shaw.ca
as their ISP, avoid yahoo.com, filter any mention of blogspot.com and use
some other search engine than google, somebody would step in and make this
spammer die.

"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
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All,

I don't pretend to be a net wiz kid. Is there something that can be done
to stop the spamming here? Of course, I don't open the junk, but doesn't
it cut into the band width we have, or something like that?

I remember reading not too long ago about groups that went down because of
this kind of garbage. Is there anything we can do, or is it not important?

I'd hate to lose this group.

Diana