From: Colin Watters on 8 Jun 2010 15:17 "Lynn McGuire" <lmc(a)winsim.com> wrote in message news:auKdnRshrMqJ-JPRnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d(a)supernews.com... >> The spam problem is almost entirely limitted to reading via google >> groups. If you use pretty much any other usenet news server, you won't >> see much of it at all. You could complain to google (lots of luck), or >> you could do what works, which is to use a different server. > > I use www.supernews.com . The amount of spam is overwhelming. > All of the spam is coming from http://groups.google.com/comp.lanf.fortran > though. > > Lynn I use eternal-september, see http://www.eternal-september.org/. Last spam I saw was 6 days ago, 2 postings. Before that, it wasn't more than about 1 a day. I can't be precise coz I routinely delete it from my Outlook Express view, and promptly forget I ever saw it. -- Qolin Email: my qname at domain dot com Domain: qomputing
From: Colin Watters on 8 Jun 2010 15:33 > > > "Lynn McGuire" <lmc(a)winsim.com> wrote in message > news:auKdnRshrMqJ-JPRnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d(a)supernews.com... >>> The spam problem is almost entirely limitted to reading via google >>> groups. If you use pretty much any other usenet news server, you won't >>> see much of it at all. You could complain to google (lots of luck), or >>> you could do what works, which is to use a different server. >> >> I use www.supernews.com . The amount of spam is overwhelming. >> All of the spam is coming from >> http://groups.google.com/comp.lanf.fortran >> though. >> >> Lynn > > > I use eternal-september, see http://www.eternal-september.org/. > > Last spam I saw was 6 days ago, 2 postings. Before that, it wasn't more > than about 1 a day. I can't be precise coz I routinely delete it from my > Outlook Express view, and promptly forget I ever saw it. > ....I should have kept my big mouth shut, 15 of them have just landed. -- Qolin Email: my qname at domain dot com Domain: qomputing
From: Richard Maine on 8 Jun 2010 15:56 Colin Watters <boss(a)qomputing.com> wrote: > > Last spam I saw was 6 days ago, 2 postings. Before that, it wasn't more > > than about 1 a day. > > ...I should have kept my big mouth shut, 15 of them have just landed. Good thing I didn't mention the host I use. :-) Not that it should be hard to see from my headers (and I've mentioned it before). Mentioning it probably would have precipitated a surge there as well. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
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