Re: How to get rid of spam

On Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 10:17:12 PM UTC-6, JohnA wrote:
> I seem to be deluged with spam on this list - any one else seeing this?

I assume you're referring to the multiple posts here recently 
which clearly do not belong. 
Likely folks selling stuff and enamored of themselves, 
hoping others will bite and buy.
I've seen a bunch of those recently. A couple of examples:

Subject:  Nh10 Movie Download 720p Kickass 64l
Poster:  Rachell Pjetrovic

Subject:  Bollywood Hd Mp4 Full Movies Downloadl
Poster:  Rosalee Grindstaff

I've seen this in the past, where 
there's a storm of such off-topic subjects 
from the same "author".

No guarantees the following will help, 
but in my experience, in time, it does help.

If you select a discussion (any discussion here), 
at the far right in the Subject row are three vertical dots. 
Clicking those 3 dots opens a dropdown which has 
"Report message as abuse" as an option.
Opening that option provides several types of
"abuse" to choose from. I select "Spam" then "Submit report".

The discussion row then reads,
"This discussion has been hidden because you reported it as abuse".

In the past, quite some time after I reported the abuse  
(longer than I would have liked, but Google probably sees a lot of "abuse")
those discussions disappeared from my Newsgroup screen.