I have no idea how this spam appeared on vim_mac. I am a manager for the Vim groups (actually, the only manager for vim_mac, apart from Bram who naturally does not get involved in moderating messages).
Google Groups has had a dramatic increase in spam in the last few days, with over 40 spam attempts to the Vim groups in the last three days (a spammer creates an account then sends a message to a group; that message appears in a moderation queue for a manager to approve or reject). Anyway, I am certain that I clicked the "Spam" button in the management interface for this particular message, yet it was sent to the group (I have deleted it from the Google Groups archive). The gmail servers have been experiencing problems lately; perhaps some overload condition caused the Google Groups system to malfunction. I'm telling you all this to work off some steam: I am beginning to think that Google Groups is a bit of a disaster because it is too attractive and easy a target for spammers. John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
