Re: stf, what happened to comp.lang.php, too much crap!!!

Mark A. Boyd wrote:
> fel [snip gmail address] posted in comp.lang.php:
>
>> too much spam, it didn't use to be this way?
>> what happened??
>
> Did you happen to notice that the vast majority of these spammers (here in
> C.L.P) use Google Groups?
>
> User-Agent: G2/1.0 - the current bane of Usenet - has also extended eternal
> September for, well, another eternity.
>
> BTW, did you know that Google Groups posts your complete, non-munged email
> address to Usenet? I suspect the writers of email harvesting bots love that.
>
>

Not anymore. They hide the emails now.

And Google acquired an internet company Deja which provided Usenet
services. I am unsure if Deja would have handled the current spamming
better than Google.