Re: e. montaut

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Jeff Chapman wrote:

We're really getting socked here with spam on this newsgroup, Steve - do you
know who's in charge of maintaining this thing? Looks like the sysad's out
to lunch... way, way out to lunch...

Pretty embarrassing for a Microsoft group, that despite all their
technology, they can't or won't prevent a newsgroup from getting littered
with spam.

While this and other NNTP newsgroups don't belong to Microsoft, its Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) has tied its officeformac.com forums into the Office for Mac and other Mac-related newsgroups. They are responsible for allowing this massive amount of spam to come through.

You can corroborate this by referencing the headers in the spam messages. 99% are coming from WebCrossing, which also produces the pages for the officeformac.com forums. You'll see WebCrossing's name referenced in the HTML source of the officeformac.com webpages:

Page produced by Web Crossing(tm)/Unix-6.0
(http://webcrossing.com/) for Microsoft-Mactopia

I have been complaining loudly to my contacts at MacBU. I suggest everyone else who is annoyed with the amount of spam coming through their forums do so as well.

If folks don't complain then MacBU won't consider this a problem or a priority.

Use this form on their website:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/feedback.mspx>

Suggested text:

"Please, enable spam prevention methods on the officeformac.com website or disconnect your online forums from the Usenet newsgroups. The amount of spam coming through your forums is negatively impacting my experience in the newsgroups."

[No need to be rude. Just get your message across.]

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