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Jarrick Chagma
This newsgroup has become almost unusable thanks mainly to one serial
spammer. Can't anything be done to stop them?
spammer. Can't anything be done to stop them?
killfile is the best you can hope for.Jarrick said:This newsgroup has become almost unusable thanks mainly to one serial
spammer. Can't anything be done to stop them?
Jarrick said:This newsgroup has become almost unusable thanks mainly to one serial
spammer. Can't anything be done to stop them?
Noah said:You can try reporting them but you'll get a nice pandering letter and
then nothing will happen.
Juha said:The spam flood started a couple of months ago. Before that, almost
nothing, then suddenly a huge flood. Something definitely has changed
at that point. But what?
This newsgroup has become almost unusable thanks mainly to one serial
spammer. Can't anything be done to stop them?
Default said:It started long before that. It just took a while to get around to
technical groups.
Juha said:almost >> nothing, then suddenly a huge flood. Something definitely
has changed >> at that point. But what?
"A while" being about 20 years? I have hard time believing that.
Default said:I'm confused. You said that, "The spam flood started a couple of months
ago." I'm not sure where 20 years comes in.
Juha said:Default User wrote:
Let me quote myself:
"I have hard time believing this is the first time in the history of
the internet that a newsgroup has been flooded with spam. I also have
hard time believing this particular newsgroup has been saved from the
flood until now."
Something has stopped the spam flooding before (during the existence
of this newsgroup), but now something has seemingly changed.
Noah said:killfile is the best you can hope for.
You can try reporting them but you'll get a nice pandering letter and
then nothing will happen.
What spam?Jarrick said:This newsgroup has become almost unusable thanks mainly to one serial
spammer. Can't anything be done to stop them?
They all seem to come from Organization: http://groups.google.com but OE
does not seem to permit filtering on Organization.
Can anyone recommend a good newsreader programme that does allow that
filtering?
I don't want lots of gimmicks, and I do not want it trying to take over the
world (not doing email, not being an Internet explorer, etc).
This is for XP.
Interesting.
"IMPORTANT: Thunderbird requires you to have an SFF email account before you
can use the Newsreader functions"
Not quite what I was looking for then.
Interesting.
"IMPORTANT: Thunderbird requires you to have an SFF email account before you
can use the Newsreader functions"
Bill Davy said:
Bill said:Interesting.
"IMPORTANT: Thunderbird requires you to have an SFF email account before you
can use the Newsreader functions"
Not quite what I was looking for then.
Argh, perhaps I should write one, in C++. ;-)
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Argh, perhaps I should write one, in C++. ;-)
My advice would be to consider writing a filtering new server
instead. I.e. it connects to a news server of your choice, filters
out whatever you don't want, and your newsreader connects to this
local news server to collect its filtered feed of the news.
This should reduce the effort considerably, and be pretty easy to
make (mostly) portable -- not to mention making adoption a lot easier
since its only affect on the user would be the lack of spam.
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