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From: PeterD on 12 Jun 2010 08:07
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:09:24 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
<dave(a)davenoise.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <PNDQn.57036$h57.24297(a)newsfe22.iad>,
> UCLAN <nomail(a)thanks.org> wrote:
>> > All the recent spam here seems to have been posted through aioe.org.
>
>> Aioe.org does nothing to stop spammers and nonsense posters. For that
>> reason, they are quite popular with spammers, etc. That is why I have
>> plocked all posts from aioe.
>
>You'd do better to block all gmail posts - that's where the majority
>originate.

When I blocked all gmail posts my spam counts dropped by about 85% or
more. Every once in a while I miss a useful post, but usually someone
will reply and quote the original post and I will see it.
From: Smitty Two on 12 Jun 2010 10:35
In article <q1u61652sijrrtst0af3rgs1tu4gr2m4i9(a)4ax.com>,
PeterD <peter2(a)hipson.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:09:24 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
> <dave(a)davenoise.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >In article <PNDQn.57036$h57.24297(a)newsfe22.iad>,
> > UCLAN <nomail(a)thanks.org> wrote:
> >> > All the recent spam here seems to have been posted through aioe.org.
> >
> >> Aioe.org does nothing to stop spammers and nonsense posters. For that
> >> reason, they are quite popular with spammers, etc. That is why I have
> >> plocked all posts from aioe.
> >
> >You'd do better to block all gmail posts - that's where the majority
> >originate.
>
> When I blocked all gmail posts my spam counts dropped by about 85% or
> more. Every once in a while I miss a useful post, but usually someone
> will reply and quote the original post and I will see it.

gmail isn't the problem, it's googlegroups. The fact that some
googlegroupers have gmail email accounts has nothing to do with it.
Filtering Message ID for "googlegroups" targets the spam much more
accurately.
From: Baron on 12 Jun 2010 15:25
Smitty Two Inscribed thus:

> In article <q1u61652sijrrtst0af3rgs1tu4gr2m4i9(a)4ax.com>,
> PeterD <peter2(a)hipson.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:09:24 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
>> <dave(a)davenoise.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <PNDQn.57036$h57.24297(a)newsfe22.iad>,
>> > UCLAN <nomail(a)thanks.org> wrote:
>> >> > All the recent spam here seems to have been posted through
>> >> > aioe.org.
>> >
>> >> Aioe.org does nothing to stop spammers and nonsense posters. For
>> >> that reason, they are quite popular with spammers, etc. That is
>> >> why I have plocked all posts from aioe.
>> >
>> >You'd do better to block all gmail posts - that's where the majority
>> >originate.
>>
>> When I blocked all gmail posts my spam counts dropped by about 85% or
>> more. Every once in a while I miss a useful post, but usually someone
>> will reply and quote the original post and I will see it.
>
> gmail isn't the problem, it's googlegroups. The fact that some
> googlegroupers have gmail email accounts has nothing to do with it.
> Filtering Message ID for "googlegroups" targets the spam much more
> accurately.

They don't mind forging headers either...

--
Best Regards:
Baron.
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