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From: Rich Webb on 21 Apr 2008 09:46
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:18:14 -0700 (PDT), rickman <gnuarm(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>If you have to whitelist posters from google groups, how do you see
>posts from people who don't post a lot? Will you see my posts?

Yup. I started with names that I recognized and added to that list by
seeing holes in threads and by filtering the killed log with a Perl
script that reports total posts versus posting ID. It's not too hard
to pick out the real posters against the noise of accounts like "Monty
<montyalexander72(a)gmail.com>," which appears to be one of the newer
spam accounts.

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From: Aly on 21 Apr 2008 12:14
"Ed Prochak" <edprochak(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4944aed7-4faa-436f-a7eb-0ae98a237280(a)l25g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> On Apr 21, 10:16 am, Grant Edwards <gra...(a)visi.com> wrote:
>> On 2008-04-21, vorange <orange...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>
> Yes, I am about to give up using Google groups except for a couple
> moderated ones.
> (Do you hear this Google?)
>
> Ed

Agreed.

The only thing I find Google Groups useful for is searching through archived
posts.

Frankly if someone can't be bothered to use a usenet NNTP server, then
that's there problem. Everyone seems to think that t'Internet is all port
80 these days..


From: andrew.nesterov on 21 Apr 2008 16:01
On Apr 21, 9:14 am, "Aly" <slfjh;sjb(a)DFv3rjgn34,..fv> wrote:
> "Ed Prochak" <edproc...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:4944aed7-4faa-436f-a7eb-0ae98a237280(a)l25g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Apr 21, 10:16 am, Grant Edwards <gra...(a)visi.com> wrote:
> >> On 2008-04-21, vorange <orange...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, I am about to give up using Google groups except for a couple
> > moderated ones.
> > (Do you hear this Google?)
>
> > Ed
>
> Agreed.

So do I.

> The only thing I find Google Groups useful for is searching through archived
> posts.

Yes, this is what is good with Google; sometimes to lookup very old
posts, once
I dug up a message ca 1988. Is out there another archive machine that
can be
used alternatively? If not, then searching an archive contaminated
with all sorts
of waste isn't worth the time. Which means that in a few (or may be
more) years
many technical usenet groups would have been dead barrents.

Andrew

> Frankly if someone can't be bothered to use a usenet NNTP server, then
> that's there problem. Everyone seems to think that t'Internet is all port
> 80 these days..

From: rickman on 21 Apr 2008 23:18
On Apr 21, 4:01 pm, andrew.neste...(a)softhome.net wrote:
> On Apr 21, 9:14 am, "Aly" <slfjh;sjb(a)DFv3rjgn34,..fv> wrote:
>
> > "Ed Prochak" <edproc...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:4944aed7-4faa-436f-a7eb-0ae98a237280(a)l25g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
>
> > > On Apr 21, 10:16 am, Grant Edwards <gra...(a)visi.com> wrote:
> > >> On 2008-04-21, vorange <orange...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > Yes, I am about to give up using Google groups except for a couple
> > > moderated ones.
> > > (Do you hear this Google?)


I am thinking the same thing. I can't believe that Google is going to
let a small number of spammers destroy their product. Google groups
is quickly becoming useless and unless the direction changes soon, I
will just abandon it.

From: jebblue on 22 Apr 2008 21:25
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:06:01 -0400, CBFalconer wrote:

> But getting rid of google is essential. This means the newsreader, not
> posters. I don't eliminate google posters.

I filter Google posters too. Cuts down tremendously on SPAM.

Here is the best part of my filters:

%BOS
[*]
Score:: =-9999
Message-ID: teranews
Message-ID: dizum
Message-ID: virginmedia
Message-ID: googlegroups
Message-ID: webtv
Message-ID: albasani
Message-ID: gallopinginsanity
Message-ID: orange
Message-ID: easynews
Message-ID: moria
Message-ID: 4ax
Message-ID: phx
Message-ID: schestowitz
Message-ID: newsguy
Message-ID: bluewin
Message-ID: privat
Message-ID: motzarella
Message-ID: ziggynet1
%EOS

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