Tim wrote:

On GoogleGroups, there is a "more options" that you can hit on a
particular post, that will say "report this message" You click it and
you get something like this.

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Google takes abuse of its services very seriously. We're committed to
dealing with such abuse according to the laws in your country of
residence. When you submit a report, we'll investigate it and take the
appropriate action. We'll get back to you only if we require
additional details or have more information to share.
Group name: rec.boats
URL or Message-ID of message: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...ce60b8b5560b29
Type of Abuse:

O I am seeing spam

O This appears to be hateful or violent content

O I.e. Anti-semitic content, racist content, material that could
result in a violent physical act

O This appears to be illegal pornography

O I've found personal or private information

O I.e. Credit card number, personal identification number, unlisted
home address. Note that email addresses and full names are not
considered private information.

O According to the laws of my country, this post is illegal.

Other

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It gives you specific boxes for what you may consider an offense.

you have to write a discription of what you may think an offense is,
but don't count on much.

cross-posting isn't one of them, neither political language.

SPAM is, and also hard racial language, and thats about it.

There was a cross-posting, white-power -acist-moron that used to hit
rec.boats quite often and he'd get TOS'd from GoogleGroups, then come
back with a differfent email and handle. Some of his past names we

Greg
Ted
Theodore


Anyhow, I haven't seen his crap in a while, so maybe he's left stuff
alone, or has been dealt with from someone who may have found out his
true identity.

I don't know.




I find google groups to have a cumbersome interface but I suppose
everyone likes what they get used to. I like the google gmail interface,
though, but a variety of mail servers just plain block email coming from
google because of the spam.