> Mike Dee told us in complete confidence:
>

>>I'm subbed to greatnowhere also, so I'll take care to send this via
>>another server, otherwise you may not read it ;-)

>
> Darn. I was hoping to see if my NP filter expression worked ;-)

> Just got two brief, but friendly replies from Peter Zeltins at
> greatnowhere.com telling me that the spammer's accounts have been
> "zapped."

>Nicetameetya anonymous.invalid.con> wrote:
>

>> Just got two brief, but friendly replies from Peter Zeltins at
>> greatnowhere.com telling me that the spammer's accounts have been
>> "zapped."

>
>Good news, I sent off a few headers too, but I guess that wont hurt.
>
>Poor spammer will have to go back to google :-)

>[Default] On 12 May 2008 06:58:00 GMT, Mike Dee
> told us in complete confidence:
>

>>Nicetameetya anonymous.invalid.con> wrote:
>>

>>> Just got two brief, but friendly replies from Peter Zeltins at
>>> greatnowhere.com telling me that the spammer's accounts have been
>>> "zapped."

>>
>>Good news, I sent off a few headers too, but I guess that wont hurt.
>>
>>Poor spammer will have to go back to google :-)

>
>That's good, because - for some unexplained reason - my NPfilter sure
>doesn't pick the greatnowhere.com posts up at all ... ;-)

>>>> The following NewsProxy filter expressions work fine with
>>>> googlegroups, but it doesn't appear to be working with the
>>>> latest source of SPAM from the greatnowhere.com server. Any [...]

>>
>> Also noticed the spammer uses the same email address on most of
>> the posts. So I did a couple of global filters on the three
>> addresses used so far. ZAP! ;-)b

>
> Wouldn't it be better to just * drop From: *kmwkawrt@yahoo*
>
> There seems to be only one spammer who's dumb enough to use one name
> (at least this is all I've noticed so far). I can understand KF'ing
> Googlegroups, but to blanket kill a small free newsserver like
> greatnowhere, seems a bit of an over reaction.

> [Default] On 12 May 2008 06:58:00 GMT, Mike Dee
> told us in complete confidence:
>

>>Nicetameetya anonymous.invalid.con> wrote:
>>

>>> Just got two brief, but friendly replies from Peter Zeltins at
>>> greatnowhere.com telling me that the spammer's accounts have been
>>> "zapped."

>>
>>Good news, I sent off a few headers too, but I guess that wont hurt.
>>
>>Poor spammer will have to go back to google :-)

>
> That's good, because - for some unexplained reason - my NPfilter sure
> doesn't pick the greatnowhere.com posts up at all ... ;-)

> Nicetameetya anonymous.invalid.con> wrote:
>

>> Just got two brief, but friendly replies from Peter Zeltins at
>> greatnowhere.com telling me that the spammer's accounts have been
>> "zapped."

>
> Good news, I sent off a few headers too, but I guess that wont hurt.
>
> Poor spammer will have to go back to google :-)

>>>>> The following NewsProxy filter expressions work fine with
>>>>> googlegroups, but it doesn't appear to be working with the
>>>>> latest source of SPAM from the greatnowhere.com server. Any [...]

>>>
>>> Also noticed the spammer uses the same email address on most of
>>> the posts. So I did a couple of global filters on the three
>>> addresses used so far. ZAP! ;-)b

>>
>> Wouldn't it be better to just * drop From: *kmwkawrt@yahoo*
>>
>> There seems to be only one spammer who's dumb enough to use one name
>> (at least this is all I've noticed so far). I can understand KF'ing
>> Googlegroups, but to blanket kill a small free newsserver like
>> greatnowhere, seems a bit of an over reaction.

>
> Killing the entire domain provides an incentive for the newsserver to
> get rid of the spammer (assuming that a complaint is sent to the
> newsserver). That's exactly what happened in this case, so I unkilled
> greatnowhere. ...

> Mike Dee wrote:

>> Poor spammer will have to go back to google :-)

>
> I sent an abuse complaint to peter at greatnowhere dot com
> yesterday. He emailed me back that he's canceled the spammer's
> account. As I type this though, the GN server doesn't respond.