Re: [OT] Google Groups posting gone

Sn!pe wrote:

Apologies for top-posting
 I've crossposted this to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
where it is on-topic and likely to be of interest.
  Liz Tuddenham <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>

It happened about 4pm today. I wonder how long it will take for the
spammers to find other means of peddling their wares?

>
Spammers are still appearing in <sci.electronics.design> with the path:
>
Path:
uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!npeer.as286.net!npeer-n
g0.as286.net!peer03.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer03.ams4!
peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx03.ams4.POSTED!n
ot-for-mail
From: darius <manta103g@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,free.spam
Subject: Off Topic Troll Alert! was: Re: European crash tester says
carmakers must bring back physical
Followup-To: alt.test.group
References: <us6a50$uuap$1@solani.org>
<l54mleF90jqU1@mid.individual.net>
Injection-Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 01:07:02 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org;
posting-host="aefae07b417003b570527823e77a9930";
         logging-data="29200";
mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";
posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18QBXYPJWay5G0R7zD10mjY5gUD5xOvt6I="
User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.05
Lines: 25
Message-ID: <a6cHN.2008540$tl1.775242@usenetxs.com>
X-Complaints-To: https://www.astraweb.com/aup
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 06:07:02 UTC
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 06:07:02 GMT
X-Received-Bytes: 1936
Xref: uni-berlin.de sci.electronics.design:1579608
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>
These posts are just a constant stream of automated abuse appended to
nearly  every post on the group.  I thought responsible servers would
have put a stop to this sort of nonsense.

 

Is it just my mistaken impression, or has the amount of legitimate traffic also dropped away since GG stopped contributing to the flood of spam?