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jQuery Dev Bemoans Overwhelming Spam On Google Groups

Posted by Soulskill on from the discount-llama-pelts dept.

angryrice tips a blog post by John Resig, lead developer for jQuery, about the failure of Google Groups to manage spam, declaring attempts to use it as a public discussion system "completely futile." Quoting: "The final straw was placed upon my patience with the Google Groups system a few weeks ago. Spammers are now spoofing the email addresses of existing group participants to sneak their messages through. Previously you would've seen a delightful 'FREE MOVIE DOWNLOADS' spam from 'freemovies123@gmail.com' — but now you'll see it coming from existing group users — or even the group moderators themselves. This cheat completely bypasses the moderation system since the spammers are pretending to be pre-moderated users. The Google Groups system is completely fooled. The spam message comes in claiming to be from an existing group participant — and according to the Google Groups interface there is no difference. If you click the user's name you'll be taken to a full listing of that user's posts (with the spam messages delightfully interspersed)."

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  1. Re:Google Groups shouldn't act like Usenet by Red+Flayer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Back in 1988 when I first got my account I used my real name, but did not have to. I could have just as easily used the handle" I have now. Or spammed up a storm if I felt like it. (In fact some of my early posts about trading Star Trek TNG tapes were labeled "spam" by the members... I learned not to do that anymore.)

    Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. The first time a post on usenet was referred to as spam was in 1993.

    You are completely full of shit, assuming that "some of my early posts" refers to posts made within a few years of when you got your usenet account.

    Stop pretending you're something you're not, and stop pretending you've done things you haven't.

    --
    "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
  2. Re:What do you expect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hmmm... Either the mods just freshened up their morning dose of heroin, or they really do think that Windows and MacOS are inifinitely better than Linux...

    Am i still reading slashdot?