what newsgroup software you use for this VHDL group ?

[Nigel Noldsworth]

Hello there,

I see a lot of spam when using this VHDL group in google groups. Can
you tell me what do you use to send and receive postings without those
spams ?

I saw on random internet websites I should use emacs. I have emacs on
my fedora 12, however can you please tell me how to configure it
please ?

thanks
Nigel

 

[Rich Webb]

Hello there,

I see a lot of spam when using this VHDL group in google groups. Can
you tell me what do you use to send and receive postings without those
spams ?

I saw on random internet websites I should use emacs. I have emacs on
my fedora 12, however can you please tell me how to configure it
please ?

I use Agent as the newsreader but the heavy lifting for the filters is
done by Hamster Playground http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/pg/.

Essentially, to kill most of the spam it's necessary to look at more
than the information that is available in the mandatory headers (From,
Date, Newsgroups, Subject, Message-ID, Path).

Other header fields are useful, such as Injection-Info, X-Trace, and
NNTP-Posting-Host, as is the message body itself, where spammers often
include a link to their website.

But to get to that information, it's necessary to download the complete
contents of every post. If you're only filtering on text groups, that
can be done by installing a local Usenet server like the one that's part
of Hamster Playground. That server connects to your upstream Usenet feed
and you point your newsreader to the local server, usually through the
loopback IP (127.0.0.1).

I've been quite pleased with Hamster Playground, although I can't seem
to convince it to use SSL.

See the Usenet Improvement Project (originally located at
http://improve-usenet.org/ but that site is having problems; use the
mirror at http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/index.html) for more
options such as nFilter/NewsProxy and the original Hamster Classic.

 

[Chris Abele]

I use Agent as the newsreader but the heavy lifting for the filters is
done by Hamster Playground http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/pg/.

Essentially, to kill most of the spam it's necessary to look at more
than the information that is available in the mandatory headers (From,
Date, Newsgroups, Subject, Message-ID, Path).

Other header fields are useful, such as Injection-Info, X-Trace, and
NNTP-Posting-Host, as is the message body itself, where spammers often
include a link to their website.

But to get to that information, it's necessary to download the complete
contents of every post. If you're only filtering on text groups, that
can be done by installing a local Usenet server like the one that's part
of Hamster Playground. That server connects to your upstream Usenet feed
and you point your newsreader to the local server, usually through the
loopback IP (127.0.0.1).

I've been quite pleased with Hamster Playground, although I can't seem
to convince it to use SSL.

See the Usenet Improvement Project (originally located at
http://improve-usenet.org/ but that site is having problems; use the
mirror at http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/index.html) for more
options such as nFilter/NewsProxy and the original Hamster Classic.

Or you can use any newsreader (I use Thunderbird, but even Outlook
Express would work) with a news server that does a better job of
filtering. Both News.Individual (low cost) and News.Eternal-September
(free) are nearly spam free.

Chris

 

[Chris Abele]

I use Agent as the newsreader but the heavy lifting for the filters is
done by Hamster Playground http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/pg/.

Essentially, to kill most of the spam it's necessary to look at more
than the information that is available in the mandatory headers (From,
Date, Newsgroups, Subject, Message-ID, Path).

Other header fields are useful, such as Injection-Info, X-Trace, and
NNTP-Posting-Host, as is the message body itself, where spammers often
include a link to their website.

But to get to that information, it's necessary to download the complete
contents of every post. If you're only filtering on text groups, that
can be done by installing a local Usenet server like the one that's part
of Hamster Playground. That server connects to your upstream Usenet feed
and you point your newsreader to the local server, usually through the
loopback IP (127.0.0.1).

I've been quite pleased with Hamster Playground, although I can't seem
to convince it to use SSL.

See the Usenet Improvement Project (originally located at
http://improve-usenet.org/ but that site is having problems; use the
mirror at http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/index.html) for more
options such as nFilter/NewsProxy and the original Hamster Classic.

Or you can use any newsreader (I use Thunderbird, but even Outlook
Express would work) with a news server that does a better job of
filtering. Both News.Individual (low cost) and News.Eternal-September
(free) are nearly spam free.

Chris

 

[Rich Webb]

Or you can use any newsreader (I use Thunderbird, but even Outlook
Express would work) with a news server that does a better job of
filtering. Both News.Individual (low cost) and News.Eternal-September
(free) are nearly spam free.

Fair point. Along with simple user inertia (guilty) there are trade-offs
for completeness and retention times as well as spamosity (spamness?)
and personal preference.

I tend to prefer an unfiltered feed where *I* decide what to suppress
but it is a bit more work up front.

Even taking on a spam-free feed, I'd still want to run the local server
in order to drop a few sock-puppets like "Archimedes' Lever" and his
dozens of pseudonyms.