Finally had to plonk google gorups.

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Mensanator <mensanator at aol.com> writes:

> On May 2, 1:20 pm, Michael Torrie <torr... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mensanator wrote:
>> > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <torr... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Shawn Milochik wrote:
>> >>> How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how
>> >>> can this be done in Gmail?
>> >> Set up a filter that looks for some phrase in the mail headers that
>> >> identifies messages originating from google groups.  Gmail's filters are
>> >> fairly flexible.  I'd probably just have it look for certain words.
>> >> Look at an e-mail's source (raw view) and particularly check in the
>> >> headers for things to filter by.
>>
>> > Why don't you just block all messages from Gmail?
>>
>> Brilliant!  Seeing as he's asking about doing the filtering in Gmail
>> (implying it's use for his own posting and viewing the list) that would
>> work splendidly for him!  Or not.
>>
>> Of course you're not likely to see this message either since I and many
>> folks on here post from gmail.
>>
>> Spam comes mainly from Google Groups, not as much from Gmail in my
>> experience.
>
> I didn't say it was POSTED from gmail, but the spammers often have
> gmail addresses, to wit:

You're confusing gmail addresses and Google Groups
(groups.google.com), which can be used as a web interface to usenet
and mailing lists.  Look at the 'Organisation' header of the messages
you quote.

It seems most of the spam on comp.lang.python is posted from Google
Groups, *including* the one with a 'From' header which is not a gmail
address.

So it would be more efficient to block messages posted from Google
Groups than the ones from gmail addresses.

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Arnaud