From: Justbob30 on
Win & render another group unusable....I guess someone must buy this junk,
else it would not be worth their effort to do this.

From: wm_walsh on
Hi!

> Win & render another group unusable

It has become *very* annoying, but I'm not giving up on this group
just yet. Last night I built a fairly elaborate rule in Outlook
Express to get most of it, and it really helped quite a bit. This took
a lot of thinking, as I wanted to strike a balance between getting
most of the garbage and not deleting wanted posts that happen to
contain certain words in the subject.

So far it seems like the source is abuse of Google Groups. But I'm
just not willing to block GG postings for a multitude of reasons.
(Yes, I have news access outside of GG. It is, however, not the best.)

> ....I guess someone must buy this junk,
> else it would not be worth their effort to
> do this.

The reason they do it is not so much because it is successful, but
because it is very, very cheap to do this. I'm sure they get some
responses, but I doubt they are the main reason for this.

William
From: Doug on

"Justbob30" <NoThank(a)you.com> wrote in message
news:n-udnZZKMZWCgmPanZ2dnUVZ_sGvnZ2d(a)comcast.com...
> Win & render another group unusable....I guess someone must buy this junk,
> else it would not be worth their effort to do this.

Filter posts from Googlegroups and it's almost entirely eliminated. In fact
scrolling back to December of last year I don't see one in
alt.sys.pc-clone.dell.

NFilter is my choice.

http://www.nfilter.org/

--
D


From: Ben Myers on
Don't assume that there is even junk to buy. The spammers could be scammers who
take your money and provide nothing in return. Great profit margins on that
sort of business. Their web site, in pidgin English with many HTML formatting
errors advertises every fake watch possible. Well, maybe not. No fake Timex.
Why would anyone trust a seller of avowedly fake goods? In the words of Barnum,
there's a sucker born every minute... Ben Myers

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:07:22 -0700, "Justbob30" <NoThank(a)you.com> wrote:

>Win & render another group unusable....I guess someone must buy this junk,
>else it would not be worth their effort to do this.
From: RnR on
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:55:20 -0400, Ben Myers
<ben_myers_spam_me_not(a)charter.net> wrote:

>Don't assume that there is even junk to buy. The spammers could be scammers who
>take your money and provide nothing in return. Great profit margins on that
>sort of business. Their web site, in pidgin English with many HTML formatting
>errors advertises every fake watch possible. Well, maybe not. No fake Timex.
>Why would anyone trust a seller of avowedly fake goods? In the words of Barnum,
>there's a sucker born every minute... Ben Myers
>

And/or at the same time, harvest emails to sell or spam your email
addresses too !!