Re: ***Spam*** Microsoft Tips and Tricks for beginners
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:
>From: "James Matthews" <jamesmatt18@gmail.com>
>
>| Recently spammers have gotten savvy and defeated the image verification
>| protections on services like gmail,yahoo-mail and hotmail. Now they are
>| sending spam straight from these emails... I can assume that they are over
>| there head in dealing with this...
>|
>| Now we all know that Google and Msoft aren't best friends... They don't care
>| about people spamming msofts news servers..
>|
>
>It goes far beyond the Microsoft.* hierarchy.
>
The plague of Googlespam is over the top. Ironic that many complaints
about it, show up from users posting through googlegroups.com!
What complicates matters is the Google Groups archive search, because
they are a one-act pony, and their interface has been FUBAR again,
since June. This becomes obvious using the advanced search page. The
archived messages appear to be there, but the search mechanism for finding
them is broken.
And Groups isn't the only problem Google has been having, because there
have been loads of complaints about their regular search engine. But I
use other search engines, so I don't care if their regular Google search
works or not. Their Groups search is FUBAR, so why not let their ordinary
web search break down to the point of uselessness, while they're at it.
They should make book in Vegas on how long Groups will be FUBAR this time
around. I'd give 3:1 odds till November, but that may be optimistic.
Google Groups may be down forever.
I found this link useful for keeping tabs on the situation:
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.support.general/search?q=groups+search&start=0&scoring=d&
I hope Google Groups do make another come back, but it could be years
before they decide to put it back on line. Like a lot of people are saying
about Google, they can do anything they want, and there is nothing that
anyone outside of Google can do about it. They have become like Microsoft,
an international monopoly without competition.
I've been reading in other groups that googlegroups.com is getting the
UDP treatment in a lot of news reader filters, due to all the spam, and
because complaints to groups-abuse@google.com are totally useless. I have
not done that yet with my news filters, but I am tempted to, particularly
if they don't fix the Groups interface, and soon.
Do no evil. More like do as I say, not as I do. That should be their
corporate motto. And that goes for Google and Microsoft.