So much spam, so little time...

I'm convinced that Google Groups is where Google sends its losers and rejects.

It definitely looks that way, I'll second that.

Dimiter

Didi wrote:

I'm not terribly impressed with ANY of Google these days. I went to Froogle this morning (google.com/products) and they've screwed that up: Put in a minimum price and it *ignores* it; put in a Boolean NOT and it *ignores* that.

In addition: Every time they change the main/original search engine, their cached pages render differently than the previous iteration.

In the Address Bar, I used to be able to use hyphens and/or periods as separators and the parser knew I was making PHRASES and knew the difference between the 2 syntaxes (and I didn't have to use the verbose %22+ thing everywhere, crapping up otherwise terse, human-readable URLs).

You would think that the engineers in the company would develop a test suite of exemplars that would be a baseline that would indicate if they've broken something that USED to work just fine.

It appears that the MBAs have taken over the joint and their techies have become complacent.

I think I am going to have to give up on c.a.e on google. The spam is a PITA and it ticks me off that the same spammers continually post which would be so easy to stop if Google just made even a minimal effort.

Rick

I am currently using eternal-september.org along with slrn to read Usenet.

I am seeing small amounts of spam in comp.arch.embedded, but certainly not large amounts of spam, so you may want to try switching to using your own newsreader.

Simon.