Awesome, thanks Nick. I realize its not the easiest task to track down the 
owner of stuff like this. But I thought if I asked sooner than later there 
would be a higher chance to clean up that group. Doing it years from now, 
it'll be much hard to track down the owners of that group so I appreciate 
your efforts. You're welcome, I just hope it doesn't feel as daunting as it 
looks once I get started haha

On Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 3:15:35 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:

> Hi Noah,
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 5:22 PM Noah Sumo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>> Longtime member of Mozilla here via SUMO. I came across the old Mozilla 
>> Dev Platform archive (https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.platform) 
>> a few weeks ago & found a shocking amount of spam. Numbering in the 
>> thousands. I know Google Groups seem to be a huge target for spam but 
>> thankfully it stopped in that group.
>>
>> I was wondering is it possible to made a temporary moderator for that 
>> archive so I can attempt a cleanup in my spare time. I don't wish to ask 
>> anyone to do it on my behalf because it is simply too repetitive since 
>> Google requires tons of clicks to get it done & only lets you view 30 
>> entries per page. I plan to tackle as much of it as I can mentally handle 
>> over the summer months. I think I can get it done in a few weeks once I get 
>> a good flow going. I reported 143 pages worth of posts (4261–4290 of 
>> 211,360) as spam but I'm not sure if Google will actually delete them.
>>
>> I estimate ~50,000+ spam posts ranging from drugs, cocaine, crack, 
>> adderall, Ritalin, Bitcoin & tons of foreign language spam. Seems to have 
>> started in April 2023 & ended on Feb 22, 2024. And I just hate to see 
>> y'alls dev work go out that way.
>>
>> So if anyone knows who I should be talking to about this, please let me 
>> know while I still have the energy to get started on this.
>>
>> I know its not the best use of anyone's time but if the spam can actually 
>> be deleted & not return, I feel like it would be cleaning off the graffiti 
>> on that archive. Thanks 
>>
>
> Thanks for your interesting offer.  I didn't want you to get no response, 
> so here I am.  I'll try to run down an owner and see if it's reasonablet o 
> get you some level of administrative access.
>
> Thanks again!
> Nick
>
>

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