Finally had to plonk google gorups.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-04-16, Mensanator <mensanator at aol.com> wrote:
> On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <gra... at visi.com> wrote:
>> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam.  In order to try
>> to not tar both the benign google group users and the
>> malignant ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill
>> usenet spam with subject patterns.  But that's not a battle
>> you can win, so I broke down and joined all the other people
>> that just killfile everything posted via google.groups.
>
> Not very bright, eh?
>
>> AFAICT, if you're a google groups user your posts are not being
>> seen by many/most experienced (read "non-google-group") users.
>> This is mainly the fault of google who has refused to do
>> anything to stem the flood of span that's being sent via Google
>> Groups.
>
> Duh.

My.  That was certainly a well-reasoned and well-written
response.

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