In article <87lecevisq.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com>,
Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) writes:
>> In article <87y1gfvf7i.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com>,
>> Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) writes:
>>>> In article <1bwmvzg50w.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net>,
>>>> Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>Eric M <conanospamic@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> Yes, it worked, Google just deleted the newsgroup :
>>>>>>
>>>>>http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3Cfc5652a3-1c35-4b43-8f8d-1527e4257ac2n%40googlegroups.com%3E
>>>>>
>>>>>No, that was a comment from a user during the Thaidal wave referring to
>>>>>the s/n ratio having gotten so bad the group had become
>>>>>useless. Checking... the group is still there.
>>>>>
>>>>>https://groups.google.com/g/comp.arch
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Depeer Google groups now! Enough with the anaccountability!
>>>
>>>What exactly woold that do? Would articles posted elsewhere (say, via
>>>eternal-september) no longer appear on the Google Groups web interface?
>>>
>>>I'm not pleased with GG as a Usenet interface, but it's still a decent
>>>archive. I wouldn't want to lose that.
>>
>> The archive is already lost due to high spamtrollers!
>
>I presume you know the answer to my question and that the answer is yes:
>depeering Google Groups would prevent all newly posted articles from
>being added to the GG archive.

There is another site doing this.

I just need to recall who it is.

>
>I oppose doing that. I suspect the recent wave of Thai spam will be
>temporary, and it's still possible that Google may deal with it.
>

And now they added comp.mail.sendmail .

>Furthermore, since it's something only Usenet server administrators can
>do, and has nothing to do with C, I request that this discussion be
>taken out of comp.lang.c, where it is off topic. (We've already had a
>necessary discussion of how individual users can filter out the recent
>spam.)
>
>I'm redirecting followups to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet; feel free to
>cross-post to news.software.nntp if it's really topical there.
>
>I mean, the whole point is that we don't want off-topic posts, right?
>

These are on tpoic to the groups that are getting spamtroll flooded!

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>Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
>Will write code for food.
>void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) writes:
[...]
>>I'm redirecting followups to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet; feel free to
>>cross-post to news.software.nntp if it's really topical there.
>>
>>I mean, the whole point is that we don't want off-topic posts, right?
>
> These are on tpoic to the groups that are getting spamtroll flooded!

The comp.lang.c Thai spam still appears on groups.google.com, but has
vanished from news.eternal-september.org and news.i2pn2.org. Apparently
the admins of those sites have cleaned it up.

comp.lang.c is now being dominated by this thread. Please take it
elsewhere. Followups redirected again.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */