[OT] Spam

[Bill Cunningham]

Is anyone else getting this stuff I'm getting? About rabbis being caught
on tape with strippers and sexy actresses nude and weird stuff like that?
clc seems to be full of this.

Bill

 

[Antoninus Twink]

Is anyone else getting this stuff I'm getting? About rabbis being caught
on tape with strippers and sexy actresses nude and weird stuff like that?

The only spam I get is CBF continually hawking his silly ggets and
hashlib programs.

 

[Wolfgang Draxinger]

[spam problem]

Depends on the path of newsservers I recieve the message. Usually I post
from my laptop, and depending on where I am (physically), different
newsservers are set (news.lrz-muenchen.de if I'm in university,
news.mnet-online.de at home) in my leafnode's config file, to adopt for
ACLs (those servers can only be reached from withing providers network).

I tend to get more Spam if I'm fetching through news.lrz-muenchen.de.

Wolfgang

 

[CBFalconer]

Nope. You need to get a better quality news provider.

Or a better newsreader, with adequate PLONKing facilities.

 

[Kaz Kylheku]

Or a better newsreader, with adequate PLONKing facilities.

 

[Default User]

Or a better newsreader, with adequate PLONKing facilities.

I assume you mean filtering rather than plonking. Plonk means to put
one individual into a killfile by email address. That's not likely to
get you far with the spammers.

Either I use http://news.individual.net along with a healthy set of
keyword filters. I'm not sure which is the more important, but I don't
much in the way of spam currently.





Brian

 

[Kaz Kylheku]

Or a better newsreader, with adequate PLONKing facilities.

How about this:

X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U)

Is that an example of a newsreader? Why does it announce itself as a mailer?

 

[Falcon Kirtaran]

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Is anyone else getting this stuff I'm getting? About rabbis being caught
on tape with strippers and sexy actresses nude and weird stuff like that?
clc seems to be full of this.

Bill

The spam I have been getting (those included, if memory serves) have
been coming to me almost directly from google news through glorb.

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- --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran
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[Ian Collins]

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The biggest source of spam appears to be all this PGP nonsense.

 

[Ben Pfaff]

The biggest source of spam appears to be all this PGP nonsense.

My newsreader strips it before displaying the article. Perhaps
your newsreader can be configured to do the same thing.

 

[Bill Cunningham]

My newsreader strips it before displaying the article. Perhaps
your newsreader can be configured to do the same thing.

I use outlook express. I have tried thunderbird but it was alot more
complicated to learn than OE and I didn't feel the investment of my time was
worth figuring it out. I might start looking for a new newsreader then.
Bill

 

[Falcon Kirtaran]

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Falcon Kirtaran wrote:

The biggest source of spam appears to be all this PGP nonsense.

The enigmail plugin to thunderbird strips it all (or even automatically
verifies it). Of course, there is then the point that you are using a
cancel-lock header, which doesn't seem too widely supported but is still
cryptographically-secure (perhaps) message sender identification in a
way, so you must admit that it is at least a bit valuable.

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- --Falcon Darkstar Christopher Momot
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[CBFalconer]

I assume you mean filtering rather than plonking. Plonk means to
put one individual into a killfile by email address. That's not
likely to get you far with the spammers.

Either I use http://news.individual.net along with a healthy set
of keyword filters. I'm not sure which is the more important,
but I don't much in the way of spam currently.

Well, to me PLONKING is killing messages based on something in
their headers, such as subject, sender. I plonk threads. It isn't
very important, however.