Nuxx:6eb4480a-258e-45f6-8f0b-48c77433f07b@p3g2000vbv.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!p3g2000vbv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <6eb4480a-258e-45f6-8f0b-48c77433f07b@p3g2000vbv.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: OT: Why Do Some Groups Get More Spam Than Others? Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 05:10:47 -0800 (PST) Lines: 11 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1299417047 2299 127.0.0.1 (6 Mar 2011 13:10:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 13:10:47 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p3g2000vbv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 Firefox/3.6.14,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 1737 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:38517

We've just had two spam threads in this group, but thankfully that seems to be the exception rather than the rule. It's similar with URC. Yet other groups, which often don't have much activity, are teeming with posts about Viagra, watches and fake degrees. URCM seems to have started getting a fair bit of spam in the last few months (having got zero before) despite the evident pointlessness bearing in mind that all such messages get discarded (even our current crop of "moderators" are up to that simple task).

So what makes these parasitical scum of the Earth decide which groups to target and how often? Anyone know? Anyone care...? ;-)