[conspire] We fixed antispam!

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025, at 12:33 PM, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> On 26Mar2025 12:31pm (-0700), Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:
>> On Mar 26, 2025, at 09:30, Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net> wrote:
>> > I've found that one amazing category of spam that gets through my filters these days have Google Groups headers for lists that have a two- to three-letter first part of the mailing list address.  So it'll be like ho.dsafjkdsaf.euw77 at groups.google.com or something.
>> > 
>> > So that's a heuristic now, at least?
>> 
>> It’s worth going to groups.google.com <http://groups.google.com/> and removing one’s self from all the “groups” one’s been added to. One of the sources of spam was one such group.
>> 
>> Deirdre
>
> That seems to require me to log in to google, which I have never done 
> in my life.

I applaud your restraint; I'd been an old subscriber to usenet via Google back when it purchased Deja News.

It was fun last year trying to get my contract (at Google) set up when I wouldn't install Chromium on a personal device and they wouldn't ship a work device to me until I'd gone through certain setup steps.

Deirdre