Any one has problem to access this group

[Atemporal]

When I click the link of this group, it shows the followings errors.

Cannot find comp.lang.c%2B%2B

There is no group named comp.lang.c%2B%2B.
* The link you followed may be broken or misspelled.
* Search for comp.lang.c%2B%2B
* If you got to this page by clicking a search result, please report
the problem to Google Groups Support.

 

[Krice]

please report the problem to Google Groups Support.

Yes, report to them. It's some kind of bug in that link
I guess.

 

[lbonafide]

Yes, report to them.

Why? They won't care. I've been reporting the same spam for days
and it continues uninterrupted. Then again, your request has nothing
to do with removing someone who purchased a Google Ad, so maybe they
will be less ambivalent about your request.

 

[Razii]

Why? They won't care. I've been reporting the same spam for days
and it continues uninterrupted.

Google has very little control on what is posted on the Usenet. You
report spam to the USENET server that the spammer is using (only that
server's admin -- if he wants to-- can block him).

 

[lbonafide]

Google has very little control on what is posted on the Usenet. You
report spam to the USENET server that the spammer is using (only that
server's admin -- if he wants to-- can block him).

Google can control people using Gmail accounts to spam Google groups
with porn and advertisements, which is the spam to which I was
referring.

Funny that you thought it was you, though. Is your conscience gnawing
at you?

 

[James Kanze]

When I click the link of this group, it shows the followings errors.

Cannot find comp.lang.c%2B%2B

There is no group named comp.lang.c%2B%2B.
* The link you followed may be broken or misspelled.
* Search for comp.lang.c%2B%2B
* If you got to this page by clicking a search result, please report
the problem to Google Groups Support.

You use Firefox, and just upgraded, automatically, too.

Apparently, the latest version of Firefox is converting the +'s
in a link into their % HEX HEX encoding. This is actually
required, according to RFC2616 (since + is a reserved
character); it is frequent, however, to not do so, and earlier
versions of Firefox didn't. Within a URL, of course, the server
is required (again by RFC2616) to interpret the escaped ASCII as
the literal character, i.e. %2B means a + in the URL, even if
the context would otherwise interpret a + as some sort of
separator. So Google's server is broken as well. (At least,
this is what I think happened. The problem appeared for me
immediately after the last update of Firefox. It's possible,
however, that Google modified something and broke there server
at the same moment Firefox upgraded. Generally speaking,
however, Google's servers have always been severely broken,
sending all sorts of gibberish in lieu of correct HTML, and I
suspect that they never handled %2B correctly.)

In the meantime, once you get the error message, just go to the
URL line in the navigation toolbar, and edit the %2B to +.
Firefox, at least, doesn't change the +'s for a URL entered
there.

 

[James Kanze]

Google has very little control on what is posted on the Usenet. You
report spam to the USENET server that the spammer is using (only that
server's admin -- if he wants to-- can block him).

If the spam is being posted through Google, they can very
definitely block it. (I've heard that this is the case, but
I've never bothered to even open one of the spams, to look at
the headers, to see if this was the case.)

 

[Default User]

If the spam is being posted through Google, they can very
definitely block it. (I've heard that this is the case, but
I've never bothered to even open one of the spams, to look at
the headers, to see if this was the case.)

Almost all spam on usenet is vectored through GG these days. They don't
care. Their failure to address the problem has led to an escalation of
the problem. Where before mostly recreational groups were being hit,
that's now transfered to technical ones as well.

Google may well kill usenet before it's done with its evil.




Brian

 

[Ian Collins]

Almost all spam on usenet is vectored through GG these days. They don't
care. Their failure to address the problem has led to an escalation of
the problem. Where before mostly recreational groups were being hit,
that's now transfered to technical ones as well.

Google may well kill usenet before it's done with its evil.

Or if the number of posts inquiring about real news servers and clients
is anything to go by, drive people away from their service back to
Usenet proper.

 

[peter koch]

You use Firefox, and just upgraded, automatically, too.

Apparently, the latest version of Firefox is converting the +'s
in a link into their % HEX HEX encoding.  This is actually
required, according to RFC2616 (since + is a reserved
character); it is frequent, however, to not do so, and earlier
versions of Firefox didn't.  Within a URL, of course, the server
is required (again by RFC2616) to interpret the escaped ASCII as
the literal character, i.e. %2B means a + in the URL, even if
the context would otherwise interpret a + as some sort of
separator.  So Google's server is broken as well.  (At least,
this is what I think happened.  The problem appeared for me
immediately after the last update of Firefox.  It's possible,
however, that Google modified something and broke there server
at the same moment Firefox upgraded.  Generally speaking,
however, Google's servers have always been severely broken,
sending all sorts of gibberish in lieu of correct HTML, and I
suspect that they never handled %2B correctly.)

In the meantime, once you get the error message, just go to the
URL line in the navigation toolbar, and edit the %2B to +.
Firefox, at least, doesn't change the +'s for a URL entered
there.

But IE 7.0 - as of April 1st. I wonder if this is some kind of
joke? ;-)
I could bypass this by typing http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/topics
directly in the adress-line.

/Peter

 

[Lloyd Bonafide]

Default User wrote:
Or if the number of posts inquiring about real news servers and clients
is anything to go by, drive people away from their service back to
Usenet proper.

Funny you should mention it. I downloaded XNews yesterday.