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From: Colin Watters on 18 Jan 2010 15:22 "dpb" <none(a)non.net> wrote in message news:hj20r8$ae0$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Charles wrote: > ... > >> But since I retired, a paid service is not worthwhile. So I use >> google, ... > > There are quite a few free servers > > news.aioe.org > news.eternal-september.org > > being two. I have tried both of these. Aoie looked promising at first, but then over Christmas most of CLF dissappeared from the server. Eternal-September meanwhile shows me posts back to 09 nov 2009, and nothing has dissappeared (so-far!) since then. I use Outlook Express. I have seen exactly one spam posting on Eternal September in about a month of usage. (Contrast this with a typical of 10 a day on my ISP's native news server.) -- Qolin Email: my qname at domain dot com Domain: qomputing
From: carolus on 19 Jan 2010 14:56 Colin Watters wrote: >> There are quite a few free servers >> >> news.aioe.org >> news.eternal-september.org >> >> being two. > > I have tried both of these. Aoie looked promising at first, but then over > Christmas most of CLF dissappeared from the server. Eternal-September > meanwhile shows me posts back to 09 nov 2009, and nothing has dissappeared > (so-far!) since then. Thanks. 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. How can that happen without human intervention? It beats google groups, anyway. The bayesian spam filter in Thunderbird works pretty well for e-mail, but if there is any way to apply it to newsgroups I haven't found it. I suppose that would require downloading every message. Are there any mail readers that can usefully filter newsgroups?
From: dpb on 19 Jan 2010 15:20 carolus wrote: .... > Thanks. 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. How can that happen without human intervention? .... I didn't see but a couple on c.l.f today. It appears they have a autobot that runs and expires identified spam from their server. I routinely get a "expired message" indicator on such posts. If I remember I can run the "delete expired messages" function first but there are few enough can simply use the "mark ignore thread" function quicker as leaf thru... --
From: Craig Powers on 19 Jan 2010 16:55 carolus wrote: > Colin Watters wrote: >>> There are quite a few free servers >>> >>> news.aioe.org >>> news.eternal-september.org >>> >>> being two. >> >> I have tried both of these. Aoie looked promising at first, but then >> over Christmas most of CLF dissappeared from the server. >> Eternal-September meanwhile shows me posts back to 09 nov 2009, and >> nothing has dissappeared (so-far!) since then. > > Thanks. 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. How can that happen without human intervention? There's a lot of automated spam detection and swatting stuff running out there. (Or rather, there was when I paid attention to such things, and I assume it's still going.) I would assume that Eternal September is a lot more amenable to accepting the assistance than Google is.
From: Aris on 20 Jan 2010 04:54
dpb <none(a)non.net> wrote: > carolus wrote: > ... > >> Thanks. 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. How can that happen without human intervention? > ... > I didn't see but a couple on c.l.f today. > > It appears they have a autobot that runs and expires identified spam > from their server. I routinely get a "expired message" indicator on > such posts. If I remember I can run the "delete expired messages" > function first but there are few enough can simply use the "mark ignore > thread" function quicker as leaf thru... Bleachbot cancels spam on usenet, but it is up to the newsserver to accept these cancels. Google doesn't accept. |