Why just this group?

[Gene Wirchenko]

You're apparently using albasini.net, by intent or otherwise. Use
eternal-September instead. If your ISP prevents that, migrate.

What he said. I use ES and do not have a spam problem with this
group.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

 

[Evertjan.]

Gene Wirchenko wrote on 14 dec 2011 in comp.lang.javascript:

What he said. I use ES and do not have a spam problem with this
group.

Perhals some use EO being confused by zero or one based months?

 

[Tim Streater]

What he said. I use ES and do not have a spam problem with this
group.

I'm using individual.net and there has not been a single spam in the
last 36 hours. So *on* go my filters again.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Not mine, as I filter on headers, not content.

That is probably much better. I think content filtering is bad.

Hans-Georg

 

[P E Schoen]

"Tony Mountifield" wrote in message

I subscribe to a number of Web/DB kind of newsgroups (mysql,
php, perl, javascript, etc.), and out of all of them, it's only
comp.lang.javascript that appears to have this perennial problem
with spam. Just wondering why this group gets picked on, while
the others are generally clean.

I've noticed that as well. I don't have effective spam filters in WLM, but I
take perverse pleasure at highlighting blocks of spam and using the DEL key
as a trigger for my zapper. On the rare occasions I access via GoogleGroups,
I have noticed that this NG consistently ranks much higher than others. So
the spammers target it and their spam counts as activity which further
boosts the ranking.

Or maybe as others observed it is the "script" in the name.

Or maybe JavaScript developers have a particularly strong need for such
drugs due to the nature of the language?

Paul

 

[Mike Duffy]

Or maybe JavaScript developers have a particularly strong need for
such drugs due to the nature of the language?

"Give me librium, or give me meth!"

(With apologies to Patrick Henry.)

 

[John G Harris]

Or maybe as others observed it is the "script" in the name.

<snip>

I've looked at
alt.satellite.tv.script,
fr.comp.lang.javascript, and
sci.med.transcription
and found that all three are low traffic and get no floods of our kind
of medicine spam. Only fclj got any med-spam at all in the last few
months.

I don't think it's as simple as having 'script' in the group name.

John

 

[Fritz Wuehler]

Many other people in other groups are bitching about this as well.

To you all I say "learn to killfile google groups"

 

[Tim Streater]

Many other people in other groups are bitching about this as well.

What, about spam? What spam?

To you all I say "learn to killfile google groups"

I have some filters that kill some posts from specific individuals. None
of those filters has fired for quite some time.

 

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <[email protected]>,

Or maybe as others observed it is the "script" in the name.

That is not a sufficient criterion, since no.c.l.j is spam-free. Alas,
it is also j-free.

 

[Fritz Wuehler]

Many other people in other groups are bitching about this as well.

What, about spam? What spam?

Exactly my dear Watson