Re: Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.

Using <news:urfp0j$f99$1@panix2.panix.com>, Scott Dorsey wrote:
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uages identify the customers of the spammer but not necessarily
the spammer himself.  Since we have one spammer who is posting
messages in a wide variety of languages including English, Thai,
Hindi, and Bhasa
Indonesia, knowing the language does not tell you much about who is running
the spam itself, only the people who have hired him.

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Has anyone figured out what exactly the payload was of the immense new spam
that flooded the text newsgroups in the past few months at the rate of tens
of thousands of spams per day?
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Most of what they spammed made no sense to anyone.
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What was their profit motive given an effort to spam 30K per day for
months?