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scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us wrote:
> Rich <
rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>> Marco Moock <
mo01@posteo.de> wrote:
>>> Am 31.08.2023 um 09:35:39 Uhr schrieb The Real Bev:
>>>
>>>> On 8/31/23 7:38 AM, rdh wrote:
>>>> > On 8/30/23 17:47, Retrograde wrote:
>>>> >> Most young people will be turned off that it involves text, not
>>>> >> images. That`s fine with me. They can gather elsewhere.
>>>> >
>>>> > The lack of moderation is probably more of a turnoff for younger
>>>> > folks. A lot of them just don`t have a tolerance for spam.
>>>>
>>>> I rarely see spam;
>>>
>>> There are groups like comp.lang.c that are currently flooded with
>>> spam.
>>
>> Also sci.crypt -- flooded with hundreds of google groups sourced
>> spams daily.
>
> I must be lucky, as the groups I follow are relatively spam-free. Some,
> like comp.sys.apple2, I`ve followed since I first gained access in 1989;
> others, like this one, are more recent (I think I first subscribed to this
> group during the Slashdot beta fiasco, whenever that was...2014?). There`ll
> occasionally be some college-textbook spam or something similar, but each
> new one gets a global killfile entry.
Given the `topic` of much of the sci.crypt spam flood, I very much
suspect it is a complete misunderstanding on the part of the spam
operators. Almost all of it is crypto currency related, and I the spam
operators see "crypt" in the group name, think "oh, this is `crypto`
related", and then spam away.
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