Thus spake Moritz Bartl (moritz@torservers.net):
On 07.09.2012 00:15, tor-admin wrote:
Running an Exit without custom WHOIS, all abuse message are received by my ISP and forwarded. So I have to temporarily ban google groups. How do other operators deal with this?
We receive the same reports and answer them like always; now, as they are still coming in, we ignore them.
Yes, we even have a template for the Google Groups case on the wiki: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorAbuseTemplates#GoogleGr...
But if the same person keeps sending you the same abuse message as opposed to actually trying to get Google to block the offending authenticated Google account, well that person has spamming issues of their own.
Are Google Groups accounts easier to create than Gmail accounts for some reason? I was under the impression Gmail has hated on account creation over Tor for some time now..
If that is still true, it's likely this new abuser uses both Tor and non-Tor... Thus simply blocking Tor from Usenet (even if we could) as the abuse complaint demands is unlikely to stop the abuse.