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This once useful newsgroup is now full of SPAM that is is no longer
useful. What can be done to clear out the "junk?"
useful. What can be done to clear out the "junk?"
This once useful newsgroup is now full of SPAM that is is no longer
useful. What can be done to clear out the "junk?"
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.
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.
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.
If you do that you may get a protest from communist red chinaCalab said:...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.
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.
Alan said: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.