On May 6, 12:41 pm, wrote:
You must be looking at this thing via something other than Google,
Dan. I guess your newsreader filters out all the copious spam. I
don't know much about newsreaders and i'm not interested enough to
delve into the subject, but from where i'm looking at this place -
groups.google.com - it's quite thoroughly trashed, with regularity
lately.

Firefox + Greasemonkey helps me out in killfiling the spam on Google
Groups. After uploading Greasemonkey, go to http://www.penney.org/googlegroupsplus.user.js
to activate the killfile.