jQuery Dev Bemoans Overwhelming Spam On Google Groups 251
angryrice tips a blog post by John Resig, lead developer for jQuery, about the failure of Google Groups to manage spam, declaring attempts to use it as a public discussion system "completely futile." Quoting:
"The final straw was placed upon my patience with the Google Groups system a few weeks ago. Spammers are now spoofing the email addresses of existing group participants to sneak their messages through. Previously you would've seen a delightful 'FREE MOVIE DOWNLOADS' spam from 'freemovies123@gmail.com' — but now you'll see it coming from existing group users — or even the group moderators themselves. This cheat completely bypasses the moderation system since the spammers are pretending to be pre-moderated users. The Google Groups system is completely fooled. The spam message comes in claiming to be from an existing group participant — and according to the Google Groups interface there is no difference. If you click the user's name you'll be taken to a full listing of that user's posts (with the spam messages delightfully interspersed)."
Re:Time to DIY (Score:3, Funny)
And then have to deal with spam from Gmail accounts.
Re:Join the 21st Century (Score:5, Funny)
No local control over filtering and sorting, forced to use your weird UI and editor instead of my own? "Forums" suck. And "easier to control" is not a feature.
Uhm - then why are you posting on Slashdot?
Re:Time to DIY (Score:5, Funny)
Back in the day of 2 kbit/s modems, yes it was a pain because it would take a full minute to download a single message, but in today's 1000+ kbit/s world, these messages just ziiiiip right past.
I use Vodafone UK, you insensitive clod!
Re:Do more about spam (Score:5, Funny)
The problem is that the trail of money ends at a Western Union or Moneygram branch.
That's not a problem! We can safely assume that said spammer lives in a 10 KM range of said branch office. A small tactical nuke should take care of it. Sure, it'll cause some collateral damage, but we're talking about spammers here.
Re:Time to DIY (Score:5, Funny)
When you have 10x more spam than relevant material in a topic, it's easy to miss the relevant material.
That, and some spam subjects are just painfully horrible, and nobody should be subjected to the horror of even glancing at them.
Then again, when I saw one suggesting I could own my own Bionic Turtle (I kid you not), spam did rise *a little bit* in my opinion. I still deleted it, but I loved that title.
Re:Time to DIY (Score:5, Funny)
People who not only force advertising on me, but do it in a deceitful manner, deserve nothing more than forcible, unlubed sodomy during the half time show of the Super Bowl.
So if your local library's cork board has individual citizens pinning up advertising deceitfully, will you unleash your gay sexual fantasies on the library staff since you pay for the library with your tax dollars?
Re:Join the 21st Century (Score:1, Funny)
Advantages of web based forums:
Any idiot...
This is an advantage?
Re:Do more about spam (Score:2, Funny)