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Ths group is hijacked by SPAM
This once useful newsgroup is now full of SPAM that is is no longer
useful. What can be done to clear out the "junk?" |
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Ths group is hijacked by SPAM
On Apr 21, 3:30 pm, smlunatick wrote:
This once useful newsgroup is now full of SPAM that is is no longer useful. What can be done to clear out the "junk?" Yea, this and almost every other group. You are not going to stop a billion Chinese from posting what they think will make them rich. It's not all Chinese either. It's often Americans selling Chinese crap. But worse is that many groups seem to be infested with overbearing homosexual posters. They take over a group and start posting obscenities back and forth until the regulars leave. For many of them, posting is the extent of their social life. I think Google's main objective is to have as many posts and clicks as possible. They won't take much action against abuse. |
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Al Bundy wrote:
On Apr 21, 3:30 pm, smlunatick wrote: This once useful newsgroup is now full of SPAM that is is no longer useful. What can be done to clear out the "junk?" Yea, this and almost every other group. You are not going to stop a billion Chinese from posting what they think will make them rich. It's not all Chinese either. It's often Americans selling Chinese crap. But worse is that many groups seem to be infested with overbearing homosexual posters. They take over a group and start posting obscenities back and forth until the regulars leave. For many of them, posting is the extent of their social life. I think Google's main objective is to have as many posts and clicks as possible. They won't take much action against abuse. You could try filtering them out (I use Thunderbird but surely other e-mail clients have filtering). I am virtually spam free after a few days of applying filters. It was a little bit of work but was worth it. -- Howard Neil |
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On Apr 21, 7:05*pm, Howard Neil wrote:
Al Bundy wrote: On Apr 21, 3:30 pm, smlunatick wrote: This once useful newsgroup is now full of SPAM that is is no longer useful. *What can be done to clear out the "junk?" Yea, this and almost every other group. You are not going to stop a billion Chinese from posting what they think will make them rich. It's not all Chinese either. It's often Americans selling Chinese crap. But worse is that many groups seem to be infested with * *overbearing homosexual posters. They take over a group and start posting obscenities back and forth until the regulars leave. For many of them, posting is the extent of their social life. I think Google's main objective is to have as many posts and clicks as possible. They won't take much action against abuse. You could try filtering them out (I use Thunderbird but surely other e-mail clients have filtering). I am virtually spam free after a few days of applying filters. It was a little bit of work but was worth it. -- Howard Neil I can bypass the posts with the smal subjects. It's not the "10 page lenght" subjects that push the "good" posted question completely out of the most newsgroups. |
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Ths group is hijacked by SPAM
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:24:22 -0700 (PDT), smlunatick
wrote: On Apr 21, 7:05*pm, Howard Neil wrote: Al Bundy wrote: On Apr 21, 3:30 pm, smlunatick wrote: This once useful newsgroup is now full of SPAM that is is no longer useful. *What can be done to clear out the "junk?" I can bypass the posts with the smal subjects. It's not the "10 page lenght" subjects that push the "good" posted question completely out of the most newsgroups. I see you're posting via Google Groups. They obviously don't care about spammers using their service to swamp much of Usenet, or give any way for users to filter out such spam. I've looked in their "help" groups and can't even find any way to communicate with them. Lots of complaints from users, not a single reply. I went back to a normal NNTP server and a newsreader that allows me to killfilter. There are a couple of decent free servers for text groups at least, e.g. aioe.org and teranews.com. if you must use Google Groups, see http://www.penney.org/tag/killfile However, you may find that many regular newsgroup users are killfiling everything from Google Groups now and won't see your posts. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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Ths group is hijacked by SPAM
I can bypass the posts with the smal subjects. It's not the "10 page
lenght" subjects that push the "good" posted question completely out of the most newsgroups. I see you're posting via Google Groups. They obviously don't care about spammers using their service to swamp much of Usenet, or give any way for users to filter out such spam. I've looked in their "help" groups and can't even find any way to communicate with them. Lots of complaints from users, not a single reply. snip if you must use Google Groups, see http://www.penney.org/tag/killfile However, you may find that many regular newsgroup users are killfiling everything from Google Groups now and won't see your posts. ....and I'm one of them. If you're posting from GoogleGroups then you might as well dress up as a Hare Krishna and hang out at the airport. -- Fight Usenet Spam!!! - http://improve-usenet.org:80/ Want a good newsgroup reader that will filter out GoogleGroups spam? Try MesNews - http://www.mesnews.net/gb/ If you want your posts to be seen, DON'T USE GOOGLE GROUPS! |
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Ths group is hijacked by SPAM
Calab wrote: I can bypass the posts with the smal subjects. It's not the "10 page lenght" subjects that push the "good" posted question completely out of the most newsgroups. I see you're posting via Google Groups. They obviously don't care about spammers using their service to swamp much of Usenet, or give any way for users to filter out such spam. I've looked in their "help" groups and can't even find any way to communicate with them. Lots of complaints from users, not a single reply. snip if you must use Google Groups, see http://www.penney.org/tag/killfile However, you may find that many regular newsgroup users are killfiling everything from Google Groups now and won't see your posts. ...and I'm one of them. If you're posting from GoogleGroups then you might as well dress up as a Hare Krishna and hang out at the airport. If you do that you may get a protest from communist red china |
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On Apr 21, 10:43*pm, Alan wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:24:22 -0700 (PDT), smlunatick wrote: On Apr 21, 7:05*pm, Howard Neil wrote: Al Bundy wrote: On Apr 21, 3:30 pm, smlunatick wrote: This once useful newsgroup is now full of SPAM that is is no longer useful. *What can be done to clear out the "junk?" I can bypass the posts with the smal subjects. *It's not the "10 page lenght" subjects that push the "good" posted question completely out of the most newsgroups. I see you're posting via Google Groups. They obviously don't care about spammers using their service to swamp much of Usenet, or give any way for users to filter out such spam. I've looked in their "help" groups and can't even find any way to communicate with them. Lots of complaints from users, not a single reply. I went back to a normal NNTP server and a newsreader that allows me to killfilter. There are a couple of decent free servers for text groups at least, e.g. aioe.org and teranews.com. if you must use Google Groups, seehttp://www.penney.org/tag/killfile However, you may find that many regular newsgroup users are killfiling everything from Google Groups now and won't see your posts. ** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com** Problem is that no ISP in my area is offering Usenet newsgroups. They can send me to a free NNTP newsgroup reader service, with not "posting" possibility. I am not willing to pay another service provider $50 (CDN) for a service I use now and then. |
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Ths group is hijacked by SPAM
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:50:18 -0700 (PDT), smlunatick
wrote: On Apr 21, 10:43*pm, Alan wrote: There are a couple of decent free servers for text groups at least, e.g. aioe.org and teranews.com. Problem is that no ISP in my area is offering Usenet newsgroups. They can send me to a free NNTP newsgroup reader service, with not "posting" possibility. I am not willing to pay another service provider $50 (CDN) for a service I use now and then. See above. Both these servers are free and allow posting. (Technically, Teranews requires one $2 payment, and has some binary groups.) Even before the current spam tidal wave, I was very frustrated at the limitations of Google Groups. It's useful for research, not participation. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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Alan wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:50:18 -0700 (PDT), smlunatick wrote: On Apr 21, 10:43 pm, Alan wrote: There are a couple of decent free servers for text groups at least, e.g. aioe.org and teranews.com. Problem is that no ISP in my area is offering Usenet newsgroups. They can send me to a free NNTP newsgroup reader service, with not "posting" possibility. I am not willing to pay another service provider $50 (CDN) for a service I use now and then. See above. Both these servers are free and allow posting. (Technically, Teranews requires one $2 payment, and has some binary groups.) Even before the current spam tidal wave, I was very frustrated at the limitations of Google Groups. It's useful for research, not participation. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** Motzarella isn't bad for a free service, either. I had issues with Teranews because from time to time my posts would take days to appear or not appear at all. I don't have that problem with Motzarella. I'm seeing a little spam, but not much. TJ |
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