From: rubbishrat on
Can nothing be done about the spam that is choking the life out of
this newsgroup ?
From: Jerry Peters on
rubbishrat <rubbishrat(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> Can nothing be done about the spam that is choking the life out of
> this newsgroup ?

What spam? I don't see any. Then again, I'm not reading this NG via
googlegroups.

Jerry
From: PeterD on
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:40:36 +0000 (UTC), Jerry Peters
<jerry(a)example.invalid> wrote:

>rubbishrat <rubbishrat(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Can nothing be done about the spam that is choking the life out of
>> this newsgroup ?
>
>What spam? I don't see any. Then again, I'm not reading this NG via
>googlegroups.
>
> Jerry

Agreed, it is relatively spam free if you don't use one of the largest
spam houses to access the group.
From: Grant on
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:20:36 -0700 (PDT), rubbishrat <rubbishrat(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>Can nothing be done about the spam that is choking the life out of
>this newsgroup ?

Use a proper news client, b) use a killfile.

Grant.
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From: propman on
On 26/04/2010 2:20 PM, rubbishrat wrote:
> Can nothing be done about the spam that is choking the life out of
> this newsgroup ?

You might want to look into using an alternate newsgroup provider such
as news.eternal-september.org (free access); they filter out 95% of the
junk.