On 29/03/09 01:02, John Beckett wrote:
>
> I do not understand what went wrong when 35 junk messages were recently sent 
> to vim_use, and 15 similar junk messages to vim_dev (seem to be three-month 
> old digests). I suppose they could be a bug within Google Groups, or 
> craziness in a member's software.
>
> The user name shecenon (joined Jan 2008) seems to be associated with the 
> messages. That user is set to "No Email - read this group on the web" and 
> (according to Google Groups search) has not posted any other messages.
>
> I have set the user as "Member's posts are moderated" and may unsubscribe the 
> user if it happens again (I'm not saying it's the user's fault, but we don't 
> have time to wonder). As a favour to those reading via the web interface 
> (when we discussed spam some months ago it was apparent that there are people 
> who do that) I have deleted each of the junk posts. I wonder if that means 
> that email subscribers who read after this message won't see the junk?
>
> John

No such luck. They were sent to my gmail account as soon as published, 
and even though my ISP had cut the line during part of the night I still 
got them all over POP3 shortly after "ifup dsl0".

I answered Christian Ebert's comment to one of them (and changed the 
Subject line), the rest I moved straight to Trash after noticing the 
obsolete dates on them. I guess "vertical filing" is all that this kind 
of crap deserves.


Best regards,
Tony.
-- 
This is the story of the bee
Whose sex is very hard to see

You cannot tell the he from the she
But she can tell, and so can he

The little bee is never still
She has no time to take the pill

And that is why, in times like these
There are so many sons of bees.

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