From: Colin Watters on

"Tom Micevski" <none(a)au-e29b6ec0.invalid> wrote in message
news:hftshs$afk$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> Ken Fairfield wrote:
>> On Dec 9, 8:20 am, baf<b...(a)nowhere.net> wrote:
>>> Mark Morss wrote:
>>>> Is there some way to stop all the adverts on this board? The place is
>>>> pretty much useless the way it is.
>>>
>>> There are free and very low cost newsgroup feeds that do block the spam
>>> and work great. I use news.individual.com for $15/year.
>>
>> I think we had this discussion earlier in the
>> year. The consensus was that if you use a "real"
>> news reader, and/or a good news feed, you can
>> avoid seeing the spam.
>>
>> But like many, I'm constrained to use Google Groups
>> by my employer's firewall. :-(
>
> will accessing newsgroups via port 80 work? if so, maybe try this with a
> proper newsreader for a free and almost spamless feed:
> Servername: reader80.eternal-september.org
> Port : 80
> http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=techinfo

Works for me. Just signed up and this is my first post therefrom.

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