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Year after year after year this same italian spammer on all comp-groups. What is the issue here?

    Subject: RAPISCE, INCULA E AMMAZZA I BAMBINI: ANDREA BAGGIO DI REPUTATIONUP CASTELFRANCO VENETO (TV)!
    From: Andreas Nigg <andreasnigg.safrasarasin@gmail.com>

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I would really like to know what is the issue here is.

I particularly remember the spammer PERSEKUUTIO == "Cubed Asshole" (in Finnish). Because he was spamming for years everywhere about some PERSECUTION.

Much later we learned that the ARMENIAN PERSECUTION was a very real thing and suppressed by various reasons by everybody everywhere.

In fact this guy is swiss, not italian. Swiss people do speak several languages.

See e.g. https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=comp.lang.lisp&mi...

https://ch.linkedin.com/in/andreasnigg

looks like he's got something with this Andrea Baggio https://es.linkedin.com/in/andrea-baggio-6b524832

Why do you think is it italian ?

What exactly do you expect as answer to this question? That a native italian speaker comes up with a peer reviewed proof that the text is, in fact, written in their mother tongue?

One suspects GP may have been asking "why is it in Italian, do you think?" and not "what makes you think it's in Italian?".

This makes so much sense. Now i feel bad for him that he got flagged so badly.

One suspects, on reading the user's comment history, that this is not the case.

I understood it other way - "Why do you think he's Italian"

>What exactly do you expect as answer to this question?

Maybe user timonoko knows something more about this story.

It is.

Italian is fairly easy to detect. Even though I don't know Italian, that's clearly Italian.

You can also test this by putting Google Translate / DeepL Translate into "automatic mode" and putting "RAPISCE, INCULA E AMMAZZA I BAMBINI: ANDREA BAGGIO DI REPUTATIONUP CASTELFRANCO VENETO" to translate, both of them correctly identifies it as Italian.

I think he's asking: "Why do you think this person is posting in Italian?" not "what makes you think that this is the Italian language?"

because it is literally written in Italian (with specific regional inflections)?

Besides, this guy (Italian) has been writing these harassing things for years.

Deepl.com?

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