In alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent, on Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:20:43
-0400, Wally J <walterjones@invalid.nospam> wrote:

>micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote
>
>>>Dunno what they're doing for real, but micky isn't correct that it's only
>>>this newsgroup as it's certainly other newsgroups getting the same spam.
>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/alt.internet.wireless>
>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comp.microsoft.windows>
>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/uk.telecom.mobile>
>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.photo.digital>
>>
>> I don't read any of these groups.
>
>I'm sure you don't so I was just being clear that it's many newsgroups.

Sure. I'm just saying I woudln't have seen them there.

>For example, Dave Royal pointed out this newsgroup is being spammed:
> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.makers.squeezebox/>
>
>Suffice to say they're spamming a _lot_ of newsgroups; but not all. :)

That's it!

>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/alt.home.repair>
>>> etc.
>>
>> But I do read this one and I get very little spam, what I do get (3 or 4
>> every day or 2 or 3) is the same I've been getting for months before the
>> recent onslaught in CMA, and ttbomr, they don't resemble what I got in
>> the Android group, CMA.
>>
>> My filter is only for the Android group, but it's possible my news
>> server is filtering them out for AHR but not CMA.
>>
>> I will pay more attention to what I've been getting and see if they are
>> from google groups and see if the style resembles CMA's

Upon paying more attention, about half of them, 4 out of 8 every day or
two, were from google groups and did have some resemblance to the ones
on the android group, althogh since I delete all the ones on the Android
group I'm going by memory.
>
>Upon closer inspection, the spam on a.h.r is the kind of spam that forced
>good people out of that newsgroup long ago, as Steve, badgolferman and I
>used to post regularly there until you guys (yes, you too micky) turned it

They got my goat and I replied but for a long time I didn't start any
threads. Except a couple times I forgot, I was careful to mark mine OT
so it's easy enough to filter them out.

>into a political cesspool of jewish-hating political rants, micky.

One could take this last line to mean I was part of the Jew-haters, and
nothing could be farther from the truth. But you can tell which ones
most of those are by the From: name, and I very rarely even read them,
let alone replied to them. I think they're too sick to reason with, and
I hope everyone else is smart enough to know a sicko when he sees one.
>
>So you may be right on a.h.r and I might be wrong, as it's unusable even
>before the anonymous spammers get their paws on that specific portal.