Microsoft Newsgroup Spammed

I spend HUGE amount of (both office and personal) time in various online communities, e.g. ASP.NET Forum, AspAdvice, WindowsForms Forum, my .NET User Group...etcetc. I enjoy the community life and browsing different types of forum, blog and other resource sites.

Today, I went to my local Microsoft MSDN Newsgroup suddenly (Well, I didn't visit it for some time due to some reason - keep reading)

What I can say is: “ah.. WTH... The problem still exist.. I mean, "SPAMMING" is all around!“

This problem maybe occur in my country only, as I can still see technical discussion in other countries, but will you spend time to (re)visit the MSDN Newsgroup if you're living here and see this screen:

Nothing (technical / .NET-related) but spam only?

I don't want to discuss the need and importance of "Moderation" mechanism in discussion groups, but PLEASE drop me a line if you know who monitor or maintain the Microsoft newsgroup, especially in the Microsoft Asia Pacific region! 

4 Comments

  • Colt-



    Drop me a link desmondb@payton.cps.k12.il.us & I'll send you the alias for fwd'ing spam. It's only supposed to be released to MVPs and the like, I'm told.



    --Brian

  • this happens all the time... Ever go to the MS ISV Newsgroup? Spammers do, but apparently nobody else does.

  • Hi Shannon,



    I send an email to the private alias given by Brian this morning, and I got a reply from Microsoft right now (<12 hours response time!)



    Report to MS and you can also be a spam-killer and help to keep the place clean. :)

  • If the MS people who are supposed to be checking that newsgroup for questions were doing their job, it wouldn't be necessary.



    <FREE>225,000,000 Opt-In Email Addre. "James Williams" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> Jan 4 2004 6:46AM



    This is the last message in the Microsoft.Private.ISV.business newsgroup. Notice the date.

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