On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:16:16 +0100, Janet wrote:


On 2012-04-10 19:59:57 +0100, Dave Hill
said:

So now we are getting Garden Banter adverts as well as doing their
work.
It'd certainly time they started sharing their profits with us here at
uk rec. gardening

It's not a gardenbanter advert, it's a post containing an advert just like
the many sent direct to urg from newsreaders, in contravention of the urg
charter on advertising.

Those who object would do better not to repeat the material thereby
giving the sender further coverage; just send a copy of the original with
its full headers so they can trace the account, with complaint to




These spam messages are sent to lots of newsgroups and well as direct
to the 'Banter' sites that steal newsgroup content. Most often the
spam originates from Hotmail or Gmail email addresses, so they are the
people to complain to.

If you use a good news provider like NIN then most of the spam is
filtered out and you don't see it. But the spam senders know that a
small proportion of readers who do see the spam think it's clever to
reply to it. They know that when such people repeat the spam it gets
past the filters and spreads much wider. They must be very glad there
are such gullible people about.