John Resig lists reasons why Google Groups is losing the battle against spam. Google Groups is dead, John argues saying the primary problem with the service “boils down to a systemic failure to contain and manage spam. Only a bottom-up overhaul of the Google Groups system would be able to fix the problems that every Google Group faces.” Here’s one problem John lists, and I recently experienced this myself (posting the same message multiple times after it failed to show up):

It's very sad, because of all the spam (even send by group owners) Google groups is often recognized as spam in google mail. If we talk about groups moderated by google, there is a lot of posted spam and the same for blog comments.

I'm just wondering why Google has not a better solution for this (google know so much about us). Maybe Google should use akismet or other IP / email blacklists?