On 13 Nov, 23:03, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Their messages are an abuse of Google Groups's terms of service, and > Google will likely act on complaints that include a *full* copy of the > offending message.
Unless things have changed recently, I doubt that Google can be bothered to do anything about such spam, even stuff apparently originating from GMail. I used to flag a lot of messages as spam, and on the occasions when the spam report form actually worked, it didn't seem to have much of a subsequent effect on the ability of the spammers to send the same tired nonsense to the group over and over again. (Either newsgroups and Google groups are just write-only channels for these idiots, or they take the classic Usenet approach of "playing" in non-political/off-topic groups, knowing that their low- end debate wouldn't stand five seconds of scrutiny in an appropriate forum with people actually interested to read and respond to such nonsense.) Anyway, for Google it's a problem that's probably less serious than having people "gaming" Adwords (or whatever Google's advertising system is called): unless there's a financial impact on Google, they're inclined to look the other way even if other people are clearly getting a bad deal (from what I've read of various advertising scams, at least). Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
