Re: Sharp increase in Google Groups spam.

On 2020-08-28, Aioe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Il Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:02:36 +0000, Kaz Kylheku ha scritto:
>
>> Some few days ago, I started seeing a sudden, unprecedented volume of
>> spam originating from Google Groups, in groups like comp.unix.shell,
>> comp.lang.c and others.
>
> could you send me some sample?

What, like by e-mail?

I'm astonished that you cannot just open up a newsgroup like
"comp.lang.c" and take a look.

New instances of this have appeared over just the past hour or so.

The volume is overwhelming regular discussions.

Here is a SLRN "screenshot":

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