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From: smlunatick on 21 Apr 2008 15:30
This once useful newsgroup is now full of SPAM that is is no longer
useful. What can be done to clear out the "junk?"
From: Alan on 21 Apr 2008 22:43
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:24:22 -0700 (PDT), smlunatick
<yveslec(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>On Apr 21, 7:05�pm, Howard Neil <hn...(a)REMOVETOREPLY.co.uk> wrote:
>> Al Bundy wrote:
>> > On Apr 21, 3:30 pm, smlunatick <yves...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> This once useful newsgroup is now full of SPAM that is is no longer
>> >> useful. �What can be done to clear out the "junk?"

>I can bypass the posts with the smal subjects. It's not the "10 page
>lenght" subjects that push the "good" posted question completely out
>of the most newsgroups.

I see you're posting via Google Groups.
They obviously don't care about spammers using their service to swamp
much of Usenet, or give any way for users to filter out such spam.
I've looked in their "help" groups and can't even find any way to
communicate with them. Lots of complaints from users, not a single
reply.

I went back to a normal NNTP server and a newsreader that allows me to
killfilter.

There are a couple of decent free servers for text groups at least,
e.g. aioe.org and teranews.com.

if you must use Google Groups, see
http://www.penney.org/tag/killfile

However, you may find that many regular newsgroup users are killfiling
everything from Google Groups now and won't see your posts.


** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
From: Calab on 21 Apr 2008 23:17
>> I can bypass the posts with the smal subjects. It's not the "10 page
>> lenght" subjects that push the "good" posted question completely out
>> of the most newsgroups.
>
> I see you're posting via Google Groups.
> They obviously don't care about spammers using their service to swamp
> much of Usenet, or give any way for users to filter out such spam.
> I've looked in their "help" groups and can't even find any way to
> communicate with them. Lots of complaints from users, not a single
> reply.

<snip>

> if you must use Google Groups, see
> http://www.penney.org/tag/killfile
>
> However, you may find that many regular newsgroup users are killfiling
> everything from Google Groups now and won't see your posts.

....and I'm one of them. If you're posting from GoogleGroups then you
might as well dress up as a Hare Krishna and hang out at the airport.

--
Fight Usenet Spam!!! - http://improve-usenet.org:80/

Want a good newsgroup reader that will filter out GoogleGroups spam?
Try MesNews - http://www.mesnews.net/gb/

If you want your posts to be seen, DON'T USE GOOGLE GROUPS!


From: measekite on 22 Apr 2008 00:37


Calab wrote:
>>> I can bypass the posts with the smal subjects. It's not the "10 page
>>> lenght" subjects that push the "good" posted question completely out
>>> of the most newsgroups.
>>
>> I see you're posting via Google Groups.
>> They obviously don't care about spammers using their service to swamp
>> much of Usenet, or give any way for users to filter out such spam.
>> I've looked in their "help" groups and can't even find any way to
>> communicate with them. Lots of complaints from users, not a single
>> reply.
>
> <snip>
>
>> if you must use Google Groups, see http://www.penney.org/tag/killfile
>>
>> However, you may find that many regular newsgroup users are killfiling
>> everything from Google Groups now and won't see your posts.
>
> ...and I'm one of them. If you're posting from GoogleGroups then you
> might as well dress up as a Hare Krishna and hang out at the airport.
If you do that you may get a protest from communist red china
From: smlunatick on 22 Apr 2008 09:50
On Apr 21, 10:43 pm, Alan <n...(a)none.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:24:22 -0700 (PDT), smlunatick
>
> <yves...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Apr 21, 7:05 pm, Howard Neil <hn...(a)REMOVETOREPLY.co.uk> wrote:
> >> Al Bundy wrote:
> >> > On Apr 21, 3:30 pm, smlunatick <yves...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> This once useful newsgroup is now full of SPAM that is is no longer
> >> >> useful.  What can be done to clear out the "junk?"
> >I can bypass the posts with the smal subjects.  It's not the "10 page
> >lenght" subjects that push the "good" posted question completely out
> >of the most newsgroups.
>
> I see you're posting via Google Groups.
> They obviously don't care about spammers using their service to swamp
> much of Usenet, or give any way for users to filter out such spam.
> I've looked in their "help" groups and can't even find any way to
> communicate with them. Lots of complaints from users, not a single
> reply.
>
> I went back to a normal NNTP server and a newsreader that allows me to
> killfilter.
>
> There are a couple of decent free servers for text groups at least,
> e.g. aioe.org and teranews.com.
>
> if you must use Google Groups, seehttp://www.penney.org/tag/killfile
>
> However, you may find that many regular newsgroup users are killfiling
> everything from Google Groups now and won't see your posts.
>
> ** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com**

Problem is that no ISP in my area is offering Usenet newsgroups. They
can send me to a free NNTP newsgroup reader service, with not
"posting" possibility. I am not willing to pay another service
provider $50 (CDN) for a service I use now and then.
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