From: Colin Watters on

"Colin Watters" <boss(a)qomputing.com> wrote in message
news:hjfvem$tg4$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>
> "carolus" <worNOSPAMPLEASEwor(a)bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:hjfl1o$qtb$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>> carolus wrote:
>> I am trying eternal-septermber. There are around 30 spam
>>> messages today on comp.lang.fortran, and 8 from 1/13, but older
>>> messages seem pretty clean.
>>
>> Curiously, my other 4 new subscriptions on eternal-september seem
>> totally spam-free (comp.unix.shell, sci.math.num-anal, sci.stat.math,
>> sci.math.symbolic, comp.soft-sys.math.scilab). I wonder what is
>> different about comp.lang.fortran?
>
> E-S has been totally spam free for me in about 6 weeks of clf usage, with
> 2 exceptions: one about 3 weeks ago, and another just 5 minutes ago.
>
> I wonder why others users of the same newsgroup from the same server have
> different experiences.
>
> Maybe the spam is added to the server whenever it arrives, then discarded
> once per day (or however often) when the spam identification software is
> run. So the spam count you see depends on how recently the spam cleaner
> has run compared to when you connect.
>
> Well its just a theory...
>

Since the above, I have observed a number of Spam messages appear in CLF on
E-S, but every time I click on them (in Outlook Express), I get "message
has been removed from the server". So something very similar to the above
seems to be happening, apparrently more often than once per day.

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From: Phillip Helbig---undress to reply on
In article <hmta9f$har$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, "Colin Watters"
<boss(a)qomputing.com> writes:

> Since the above, I have observed a number of Spam messages appear in CLF on
> E-S, but every time I click on them (in Outlook Express), I get "message
> has been removed from the server". So something very similar to the above
> seems to be happening, apparrently more often than once per day.

This is expected behaviour if someone cancels a message. However, not
all news servers honour cancel requests (mainly due to potential abuse).

From: Colin Watters on

"Colin Watters" <boss(a)qomputing.com> wrote in message
news:hmta9f$har$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>
> "Colin Watters" <boss(a)qomputing.com> wrote in message
> news:hjfvem$tg4$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>
>> "carolus" <worNOSPAMPLEASEwor(a)bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>> news:hjfl1o$qtb$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>> carolus wrote:
>>> I am trying eternal-septermber. There are around 30 spam
>>>> messages today on comp.lang.fortran, and 8 from 1/13, but older
>>>> messages seem pretty clean.
>>>
>>> Curiously, my other 4 new subscriptions on eternal-september seem
>>> totally spam-free (comp.unix.shell, sci.math.num-anal, sci.stat.math,
>>> sci.math.symbolic, comp.soft-sys.math.scilab). I wonder what is
>>> different about comp.lang.fortran?
>>
>> E-S has been totally spam free for me in about 6 weeks of clf usage,
>> with 2 exceptions: one about 3 weeks ago, and another just 5 minutes
>> ago.
>>
>> I wonder why others users of the same newsgroup from the same server
>> have different experiences.
>>
>> Maybe the spam is added to the server whenever it arrives, then
>> discarded once per day (or however often) when the spam identification
>> software is run. So the spam count you see depends on how recently the
>> spam cleaner has run compared to when you connect.
>>
>> Well its just a theory...
>>
>
> Since the above, I have observed a number of Spam messages appear in CLF
> on E-S, but every time I click on them (in Outlook Express), I get
> "message has been removed from the server". So something very similar to
> the above seems to be happening, apparrently more often than once per
> day.
>

Huh, today on E-S there were about 45 spams. I should have kept my big
mouth shut.

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Qolin

Email: my qname at domain dot com
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