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What the hell happened to our newsgroup?
This spam is the worst I've seen.
It may be fruitless -- but we need to report the abuse. |
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What the hell happened to our newsgroup?
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:40:43 -0700 (PDT), joekhul
wrote: This spam is the worst I've seen. It may be fruitless -- but we need to report the abuse. My news server has a spam hippo with a voracious appetite. It might spit out a few watches or shoes after grazing but that's about it. The spam complaints I see voiced on the group are coming primarily from Google Groups users. -- zk |
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Zoot Katz wrote:
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:40:43 -0700 (PDT), joekhul wrote: This spam is the worst I've seen. It may be fruitless -- but we need to report the abuse. My news server has a spam hippo with a voracious appetite. It might spit out a few watches or shoes after grazing but that's about it. The spam complaints I see voiced on the group are coming primarily from Google Groups users. On a bad day, I may see 10 or so commercial spam threads, but most days only 1 or 2. -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia The weather is here, wish you were beautiful |
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Tom Sherman wrote:
Zoot Katz wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:40:43 -0700 (PDT), joekhul wrote: This spam is the worst I've seen. It may be fruitless -- but we need to report the abuse. My news server has a spam hippo with a voracious appetite. It might spit out a few watches or shoes after grazing but that's about it. The spam complaints I see voiced on the group are coming primarily from Google Groups users. On a bad day, I may see 10 or so commercial spam threads, but most days only 1 or 2. I'm accessing through SBC (nowAT&T) and in the past few weeks I've gone from very few spam threads to being innundated. -- Mike Kruger "You have to be careful if you are reckless." - Richard M. Daley |
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On 2008-04-24, ZBicyclist wrote:
Tom Sherman wrote: Zoot Katz wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:40:43 -0700 (PDT), joekhul wrote: This spam is the worst I've seen. It may be fruitless -- but we need to report the abuse. My news server has a spam hippo with a voracious appetite. It might spit out a few watches or shoes after grazing but that's about it. The spam complaints I see voiced on the group are coming primarily from Google Groups users. On a bad day, I may see 10 or so commercial spam threads, but most days only 1 or 2. I'm accessing through SBC (nowAT&T) and in the past few weeks I've gone from very few spam threads to being innundated. Same here. I finally had to killfile Google Groups (minus a select whitelist) to manage it. -- Kristian Zoerhoff |
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"Kristian M Zoerhoff" wrote in message .org... On 2008-04-24, ZBicyclist wrote: Same here. I finally had to killfile Google Groups (minus a select whitelist) to manage it. -- Kristian Zoerhoff As usual. KMZ has it right. I am notoriously cheap and lazy, so I use Comcast/AT&T (my ISP) for my news server at home, using OE for the interface. FF is better, but I don't like clicking so many times to killfile stuff. At work, I use a free browse-only news server (text-groups only), with IE as the interface for GG. I prefer the OE interface (over IE) for browsing, because it is easier to see who is replying to whom. But if I want to post or reply, I need to switch over to IE/GG. Certainly not an elegant system, but not bad once you get used to it. IT Guy J. |
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Jay Bollyn wrote:
"Kristian M Zoerhoff" wrote in message .org... On 2008-04-24, ZBicyclist wrote: Same here. I finally had to killfile Google Groups (minus a select whitelist) to manage it. As usual. KMZ has it right. I am notoriously cheap and lazy, so I use Comcast/AT&T (my ISP) for my news server at home, using OE for the interface. FF is better, but I don't like clicking so many times to killfile stuff. I use my no additional charge (bundled with rent) VDSL service, a free news server and free Thunderbird (Mozilla, not Gallo). I am cheap. At work, I use a free browse-only news server (text-groups only), with IE as the interface for GG. I prefer the OE interface (over IE) for browsing, because it is easier to see who is replying to whom. But if I want to post or reply, I need to switch over to IE/GG. Certainly not an elegant system, but not bad once you get used to it. Google Groups is useless because they suspend your posting privileges for several hours if you send more than a couple of dozen posts, which makes it hard to participate in flame wars. -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia The weather is here, wish you were beautiful |
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:23:53 -0500, "ZBicyclist"
wrote: Tom Sherman wrote: On a bad day, I may see 10 or so commercial spam threads, but most days only 1 or 2. I'm accessing through SBC (nowAT&T) and in the past few weeks I've gone from very few spam threads to being innundated. I'm also with ATT/SBC/Yahoo and see the same thing. Since my newsreader is Agent it's pretty simple to sort on author, select the blocks of spam, and delete them. I'm now doing this before resorting into threads every time I "rn". -- jeverett3ATsbcglobalDOTnet (John V. Everett) |
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On Apr 23, 4:40 pm, joekhul wrote:
This spam is the worst I've seen. It may be fruitless -- but we need to report the abuse. Abuse?? I LOVE watches and sneakers! |
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On Apr 24, 11:32*am, landotter wrote:
On Apr 23, 4:40 pm, joekhul wrote: This spam is the worst I've seen. It may be fruitless -- but we need to report the abuse. Abuse?? I LOVE watches and sneakers! I bought a bunch of those watches. I am going to send them to R.B.* regulars for Xmas. J. |
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