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RBM-What the hell happened to our newsgroup?
On May 5, 5:42*pm, wrote:
catzz66 wrote: I'm an internet bar user so I'm basically stuck with google groups and I've basially given up trying to dig the good stuff out from under the spam. *Posted a recent mass chaos and confusion article here for old times sake but I can't barely stand to try to read the group which is a shame cause I remember there being good stuff in here. I feel sorry for Marion and other legitimate posters who have to use GG. * I'd be frustrated too. *With a news agent and a fairly decent news reader, you can keep from seeing most of the garbage posts and spam. *It is not just rbm that is getting hit. *I look at a couple others. *It seems like every group I look at has spam and its share of mutts who post garbage or other mutts who can't pass up replying to them. *With a little regular maintenance on your filters, you can avoid most of it. * *I'm inclined to suggest something that has worked fairly well in other groups. *How 'bout we begin the subject line of every legitimate thread with the letters RBM? *That would distinguish the real stuff from the spam and crossposters. *Anyone with a search feature could find it with relative ease. Bill * *__o * | *You never know what is enough *_`\(,_ *| until you know what is too much. (_)/ (_) | * * * * * * * * --William Blake There is no bulletproof solution to spam. I am a network administrator. One of my guys spends a lot of time configuring our corporate gateway to block spam and viruses, but never EVER block legit email. It is like dancing on a knife edge. J. |
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