Re: what is up with the spam?

Timofei Shatrov wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:46:28 -0700 (PDT), daBittweiler <daBittweiler@xxxxxxxxx>
tried to confuse everyone with this message:

On Mar 29, 8:55 pm, gavino <gavcom...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
lately?
Looks like this spammer is using Google groups to post spam to every
news group and google group he could.

By "this spammer" you mean gavino, I hope? Because I don't see any other spam on my newsserver.

No. Your server must be doing a good job of filtering it, but there's been a major attack lately. Check out
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/
to see what it looks like.

- Daniel
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