Re: all this spam

Eeyore wrote:

Bob Monsen wrote:

I've been off doing other things for a year or two, and have recently been
monitoring this group again. The spam problem is much worse than it was.

Really ?

There's hardly any IMHO. Almost all of it comes through Google Groups btw.

A lot of the groups are being bombarded by hundreds of sporged postings,
which makes it damned difficult to see the real traffic.

It seems, from the discussions I've seen, that many (most?) ISP-hosted
news servers just pipe their incoming feeds to their usenet trees
without any filtering and some (many? most?) commercial usenet
providers take more care with their product and *do* takes measures
to de-sporge the contents.

So depending on how you get the group, you may get several hundred
forged postings every day (or hour!) or you may not see any.

See http://www.warezfaq.com/dealing_with_sporge.htm for a discussion
of sporgery and a pointer to an app that can be installed as a local
news filter if one's current client's filtering could use some help.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
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