"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
With all filters in place, a sample of 100 messages on SED, 61 are
> killed ;-)
>
> ...Jim Thompson
Seems like the SPAM has been decreasing in intensity for a while. Maybe Google has been doing something.
Maybe not.
Robert H.
It really does seem to be a lot better. I don't have any filters set up with OE, and I'm only seeing a few spam posts a day, compared to sometimes
20 or more. I did take the time to report several of the worst offenders to Google, and maybe that, along with the efforts of others, has caused them to take action.Thanks, Google. My personal boycott is (at least for a while) suspended.
Paul
I noticed the same thing and have gone ahead and unblocked googlegroups and aioe on the local filter. There's still (and probably always will be) the occasional MAKE MONEY FAST!!!11!! lamer but no more so than I've put up with for years.
When I ran my filters "open", so I could observe flags before having Agent directly delete them, I saw TONS of googlegroups spam.
...Jim Thompson
Strange. I'm not running any filters and I've seen quite a drop off in the last week or two.
Possibly just normal fluctuations.
Robert H.
I think you got it on the 2nd try (if you mean Google Groups).
Robert wrote:
Could be. ...or maybe the offenders are seeing that spamming is ineffective (especially WRT handbag ads in certain groups).
Perhaps they achieved their goal (gaming Google's search engine).
...but I think the most logical reason is that they found that those who try to game the system are punished by Google, who sets their PageRank to ZERO or DE-LISTS THEM ENTIRELY.
Maybe googlegroups _has_ tamed down...
Statistics from a "download sample headers: 200"...
Filtered by Agent as cross-posted to "nutcase" groups: 14
GOOG: 20 EYOR: 14 JERK: 22 RICH:
13 SLOM: 20 TURD: 4 AIOE: 5 PHIL: 1TOTAL FILTERED: 113
"4-letter" Filters include killing any "troll-feeder" follow-ups.
Conclusion googlegroups is down to about 10% of nuisance posts, from ~80% a few days ago. Maybe the complaints are working!
...Jim Thompson
"Maybe the complaints are working!"
Yeah, something seems to be.
Maybe just normal/abnormal fluctuations but that's what I'm seeing.
Robert H.
Has anybody been tracking Jim's anal-retentive rants? >:->
Cheers! Rich
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