What the hell happened to our newsgroup?

On Apr 24, 5:40*am, joekhul wrote:
This spam is the worst I've seen.

It may be fruitless -- but we need to report the abuse.

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.

wrote:
On Apr 24, 5:40 am, joekhul wrote:
This spam is the worst I've seen.

It may be fruitless -- but we need to report the abuse.

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.

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:12:28 -0500, catzz66 wrote:


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.

This wave of spam is at least blindingly obvious, the mutts are harder
to avoid.

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.


As all regulars know, I am the spam king. I am responsible for all
Usenet spam, and all OT posts.

I am also the Usenet Abuse Czar.

And if you don't like my administrative decisions, I am also in charge
of appeals.

Emperor J.

On Apr 23, 5:40*pm, joekhul wrote:
This spam is the worst I've seen.

It may be fruitless -- but we need to report the abuse.

I tried that nad go nowhere. I'm tired of ed dola, watch ads , shoe
and and bag ads. After this posting I am permanently leaving for
bikeforums.net.

I will never again check the google bicycle groups


ed

"bktourer1" wrote in message
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On Apr 23, 5:40 pm, joekhul wrote:
After this posting I am permanently leaving for
bikeforums.net.

I will never again check the google bicycle groups

ed


Don't let the Usenet digital door hit you in your virtual a** on the way
out.

J.

bktourer1 wrote:
On Apr 23, 5:40 pm, joekhul wrote:
This spam is the worst I've seen.

It may be fruitless -- but we need to report the abuse.

I tried that nad go nowhere. I'm tired of ed dola, watch ads , shoe
and and bag ads. After this posting I am permanently leaving for
bikeforums.net.

I will never again check the google bicycle groups

Dude, this is Usenet, not Google Groups.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

On Apr 24, 6:13*am, Tom Sherman
wrote:

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


You are right Tom;

Anyone who wants to be very active in Usenet, needs a real news
server, and a real news reader.

J.

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

wrote:


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.



Hate to be negative here, but it is too easy to fake a post that way. A
great many of the mutts are sitting at their keyboards manually posting
their junk. Filtering out the worst offenders and most common subjects
takes a little regular maintenance, but it works pretty well for me.