Harlan Messinger said:
Eh? In a month's worth of alt.html postings, I see only one ad, one
piece of vandalism, and one message whose contents Thunderbird doesn't
seem to want to display. That's all. I use individual.net for Usenet, FWIW.
I get almost no spam either. Today, for example, there is just this
thread. I do nothing special except have a few filters for any posts
that kept annoying me. The news server must be doing it. I know this is
is not spam, but when I filtered out The Mad Hatter years ago, I noticed
a dramatic drop in posts for alt.html because along with him came a
complete army of wild things...
But there are usenet groups where one needs to filter for GG (letting in
a few selected individuals in), not so much for the spam but for other
"blinkey" type reasons.
GG vary in how they filter themselves, look at alt.html on web and
compare with alt.php on web. The former is impossible (as Travis is
saying), the latter looks clean.