It's hard for me to jump directly against stockhunt for the SPAM that
the newsgroup has been receiving.
I am totally against SPAM myself, but more often than not, the
perpetrator of bad actions goes through the effort of concealing his/
her own identity. Being a technical guy, I couldn't really tell
whether the SPAM was coming from stockhunt itself (a bad and maybe
illegal marketing strategy) or it could be from someone who wants to
give stockhunt a bad reputation.
I read csa2 through google groups. How google groups gets its Usenet
newsfeed is something I don't know. I do see that the posting has the
following header information:
NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.69.139.140 (or sometimes 58.69.139.53)
Injection-Info: r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-
host=58.69.139.140; posting-account=nVN2hwkAAADq7rAYNDBeWby0UPY4MG1O
Perhaps other readers who get their Usenet feeds from somewhere else
can discuss here what header information they have.
The "From" header is not reliable because it can easily be changed by
the person sending out the SPAM. That gmail account may not even
exist (another way to make somebody receive a bunch of hate mail is to
SPAM using his identity). Probably the most reliable headers are the
host-to-host trace of the path taken by the posting (and if certain in-
between hosts modify this trace, they should be banned).
If stockhunt is the perpetrator, then they be damned. If not, they're
as much a victim as us.
Just my 2c,
/Peter