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From: gil_johnson on 17 Jan 2010 22:50
As I write this, there are 8 posts on topic and 22 spams shown on
Google Groups. I like comp.unix.programmer, but I would like to find a
mirror site with a spam filter, such as gmane.org. I couldn't find CUP
on gmane, but I did find a subscription page. Would it be OK to sign
this group up?
Gil
From: Jens Thoms Toerring on 18 Jan 2010 02:56
gil_johnson <x7-g5W_rt(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
> As I write this, there are 8 posts on topic and 22 spams shown on
> Google Groups. I like comp.unix.programmer, but I would like to find a
> mirror site with a spam filter, such as gmane.org. I couldn't find CUP
> on gmane, but I did find a subscription page. Would it be OK to sign
> this group up?

Google groups is horrible (not only in that respect). And Gmane
is a mailing list archive. Usenet newsgroups like c.u.p are
neither mailing lists nor web pages (even if Google groups may
try to make it look like this).

Better get a decent newsreader, you will find a few listed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders and
use a reasonable news server - Xavier Roche recently posted
a list of some that do a good job of filtering out spam:

| http://news.aioe.org/
| * Filtering, including NoCeM
| * Free access (anonymous access)
| http://albasani.net/
| * Filtering, including NoCeM
| * Free registration
| http://www.glorb.com/
| * Filtering
| * Paid account
| http://individual.net/
| * Filtering
| * Paid account
| http://news.motzarella.org/
| * Filtering
| * Free registration
Regards, Jens
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From: Barry Margolin on 18 Jan 2010 03:34
In article <7riihfFg4uU1(a)mid.uni-berlin.de>,
jt(a)toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) wrote:

> gil_johnson <x7-g5W_rt(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
> > As I write this, there are 8 posts on topic and 22 spams shown on
> > Google Groups. I like comp.unix.programmer, but I would like to find a
> > mirror site with a spam filter, such as gmane.org. I couldn't find CUP
> > on gmane, but I did find a subscription page. Would it be OK to sign
> > this group up?
>
> Google groups is horrible (not only in that respect). And Gmane
> is a mailing list archive. Usenet newsgroups like c.u.p are
> neither mailing lists nor web pages (even if Google groups may
> try to make it look like this).
>
> Better get a decent newsreader, you will find a few listed at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders and
> use a reasonable news server - Xavier Roche recently posted
> a list of some that do a good job of filtering out spam:
>
> | http://news.aioe.org/
> | * Filtering, including NoCeM
> | * Free access (anonymous access)
> | http://albasani.net/
> | * Filtering, including NoCeM
> | * Free registration
> | http://www.glorb.com/
> | * Filtering
> | * Paid account
> | http://individual.net/
> | * Filtering
> | * Paid account
> | http://news.motzarella.org/
> | * Filtering
> | * Free registration
> Regards, Jens

Your list is a bit out of date, motzarella.org was renamed to
eternal-september.org a while ago.

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Barry Margolin, barmar(a)alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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From: gil_johnson on 22 Jan 2010 19:50
On Jan 18, 1:56 am, j...(a)toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) wrote:

> [...]
> Better get a decent newsreader, you will find a few listed at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders
> [...]

Jens, thanks for the reply. I have been lazy about setting up a news
reader - but Google and Gmane have so many groups listed! The problem
is just that you can't find the content in the junk (Google) or figure
out the real name of the group (Gmane)
Thanks again for the link - Gil
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