Finally had to plonk google gorups.

[Mensanator]

On Apr 16, 1:43 pm, Severian <sever... at severian.org> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2008-04-16, Mensanator <mensana... 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.
>
> Well, it did come from an AOL user posting from Google groups <g>.

Hey, he wasn't supposed to see that! He's plonked Google Groups,
hasn't he?

Looks like you'll have to reconsider how well-reasoned
AOL users are. Who use Google because AOL terminated their
news service - because of Google. Smart move, eh?