UDP Google GRoups

[Russ Allbery]

The Doctor <doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> writes:

> Google GRoups are now out of control with their spamtrollers.

> We neews to do something..

> Option a)

> in cleanfeed bad_hosts file put in google-groups.google.com

This isn't the right list for discussing Cleanfeed policy.  I'm not sure
if it has its own development list, but it's not something that is
comaintained with INN.

> Option b)  

> In newsfeeds put

> ME/google-groups.google.com:\

> Something has to be done

INN is news software that the installer can configure however they'd like,
not a project that takes a stance on network abuse issues.  I'm opposed to
shipping punative policy in its default configuration, no matter how
tempting or well-justified.  This is a bottomless pit of arguments and
stress and confrontation that I opted out of years ago and would
completely destroy my interest in doing further work on INN.  (This is
also why I'd rather not discuss Cleanfeed *policy* configuration on this
list, even if otherwise installing it with INN is moderately on-topic.)

We created news.admin.net-abuse.usenet for these discussions years ago
because otherwise they took over every other newsgroup or list discussing
Usenet administration and drowned everything else.  I personally would
really appreciate it if people would keep the discussion there and stop
bothering those of us who are uninterested and who will never be
interested.  I'm already killfiling the majority of news.software.nntp
traffic right now because people insist on cross-posting net-abuse traffic
there.

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