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From: dirk@orka.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest)
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Subject: Re: SPAM
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 16:51:58 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <nnd$5de7d841$38faa047@db6835260754ed96>,
ldries46  <bertus.dries@planet.nl> wrote:
>Lately I get a lot of SPAM only in this Newsgroup. I am reading this 
>group via Mozilla Thunderbird. How can I block this SPAM about 300 till 
>600 messages a day or must someone who (say someone who has more 
>privileges do so) If not is there a better route to read this group and 
>block the SPAM

I usually read Usenet newsgroups via new.eternal-september.org and
only very seldomly see a spam message in the comp.lang.ada newsgroup.

However, occasionally I check this newsgroup via Google Groups,
and there the last several weeks the amount of spam has increased
tremendously: indeed, several hundred a day!

For some time I have reported all of those as abuse.
When doing that Google claims:

  "Google takes abuse of its services very seriously. We're committed
  to dealing with such abuse according to the laws in your country of
  residence. When you submit a report, we'll investigate it and take
  the appropriate action. We'll get back to you only if we require
  additional details or have more information to share."

But I haven't seen any impact, nor did I get any feedback.

So I guess only 2 ways remain to address this problem: either use a
newsreader that has sufficient "kill features" to junk most of those
spam messages, or switch to a newsserver that uses sophisticated
enough techniques to not distribute such spam in the first place.

HTH

Dirk