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From: Martin Gregorie on 30 Apr 2010 13:06 On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:09:33 +0000, David Segall wrote: > ses <stewart(a)ssims.co.uk> wrote: > >>What can be done to combat the spam on usenet groups like this one? I'm >>assuming it's something people have tried to take before so is it of >>such a huge volume / difficult to filter that a lot still gets through? > > Nothing, if you must use Google groups. If you have access to a news > server (there are several that are free or very cheap) you can use a > news reader. That will enable you to filter messages. I use Forte Agent > <http://www.forteinc.com/> (Windows only) and I get almost no spam in > this news group. > Same here - except that I use the Pan newsreader, which also has decent filtering capabilities. Not as good as Agent, but good enough: it can filter by author or by thread. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
From: Arne Vajhøj on 30 Apr 2010 21:39 On 30-04-2010 12:30, Donkey Hottie wrote: > On 30.4.2010 18:09, David Segall wrote: >> ses<stewart(a)ssims.co.uk> wrote: >>> What can be done to combat the spam on usenet groups like this one? >>> I'm assuming it's something people have tried to take before so is it >>> of such a huge volume / difficult to filter that a lot still gets >>> through? >> >> Nothing, if you must use Google groups. If you have access to a news >> server (there are several that are free or very cheap) you can use a >> news reader. That will enable you to filter messages. I use Forte >> Agent<http://www.forteinc.com/> (Windows only) and I get almost no >> spam in this news group. > > And I get absolutely zero spam in this news group, much because I filter > all from Google groups out. You can miss on topic posts that way. I think it is more in the spirit of usenet to see unwanted spam than to miss relevant posts. Arne
From: Arne Vajhøj on 30 Apr 2010 21:40 On 30-04-2010 07:56, ses wrote: > What can be done to combat the spam on usenet groups like this one? > I'm assuming it's something people have tried to take before so is it > of such a huge volume / difficult to filter that a lot still gets > through? If you just ignore it, then the time wasted is a lot less than the time you can spend trying to avoid seeing it. Arne
From: Kevin McMurtrie on 1 May 2010 00:18 In article <86dra7-248.ln1(a)lancaster.fredriksson.dy.fi>, Donkey Hottie <donkey(a)fred.pp.fi> wrote: > On 30.4.2010 18:09, David Segall wrote: > > ses <stewart(a)ssims.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> What can be done to combat the spam on usenet groups like this one? > >> I'm assuming it's something people have tried to take before so is it > >> of such a huge volume / difficult to filter that a lot still gets > >> through? > > > > Nothing, if you must use Google groups. If you have access to a news > > server (there are several that are free or very cheap) you can use a > > news reader. That will enable you to filter messages. I use Forte > > Agent <http://www.forteinc.com/> (Windows only) and I get almost no > > spam in this news group. > > And I get absolutely zero spam in this news group, much because I filter > all from Google groups out. Same here. Google is pretty much the only spammer on Usenet, and it's because they "use the algorithm" rather than actually support their products. -- I won't see Google Groups replies because I must filter them as spam
From: Kevin McMurtrie on 1 May 2010 00:19
In article <4bdb8641$0$274$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk>, Arne Vajh�j <arne(a)vajhoej.dk> wrote: > On 30-04-2010 12:30, Donkey Hottie wrote: > > On 30.4.2010 18:09, David Segall wrote: > >> ses<stewart(a)ssims.co.uk> wrote: > >>> What can be done to combat the spam on usenet groups like this one? > >>> I'm assuming it's something people have tried to take before so is it > >>> of such a huge volume / difficult to filter that a lot still gets > >>> through? > >> > >> Nothing, if you must use Google groups. If you have access to a news > >> server (there are several that are free or very cheap) you can use a > >> news reader. That will enable you to filter messages. I use Forte > >> Agent<http://www.forteinc.com/> (Windows only) and I get almost no > >> spam in this news group. > > > > And I get absolutely zero spam in this news group, much because I filter > > all from Google groups out. > > You can miss on topic posts that way. > > I think it is more in the spirit of usenet to see unwanted > spam than to miss relevant posts. > > Arne Some groups have about 100 real posts a day and several hundred Google spams a day. -- I won't see Google Groups replies because I must filter them as spam |