Re: all this spam

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:13:44 GMT, "Bob Monsen" <rcmonsen@xxxxxxxxx>
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.
Does anybody have a good algorithm for marking it, or a suggestion for a
program to do that without generating too many false positives? It makes
the
group much harder to read.

Thanks,
Bob Monsen



Do you see a lot of spam? I don't. I use Supernews, and they seem to
nuke the spam pretty well.

John


An ISP I used to be with - carryed News Groups - for a while, then said it
cost him over $2000 per year to do so - making it non profitable for him.
However - before he cut them out - and I dropped him due to that and price -
I often engaged in "News Groups" - as I have in the recent past. Oddly
enough - some *** reported me to him for "creating an issue" - which was
nothing more than an opinion - much as I've posted anywhere - here or in
other groups - lately. Then this *** calls me to say he's coming to my
house - which I was waiting for. I welcomed his visit. Smith and Wesson love
company! He didn't have the balls to show up. That same *** was causing
trouble for many others (locally) in the group. Maybe someone else took care
of him! :)

So - the ISP writes ME to say he doesn't care about the "news groups" one
way or another - he knew the troublesome people who could be found there -
but tells me to cool it anyway. That was about 5 months or so before he
dropped them.

I called around for another ISP who covered News Groups. The one I'm with -
said they didn't - even though their ad stated such - but yet here I am!
Anyway - they have decent service - so - so be it. Filtering - well - being
they said they don't "cover" the "News Groups" - they'll probably not give
any "filtering" either. I just block the assholes when they get to be a
pain.

So - some ISPs apparently DO filter - some don't. It is a pain in the ass to
see all those Chinese and so on - knock off ads - but like a news paper - I
change pages - when nothing appears interesting.

I've never delved into "complete" filtering - maybe sometime I'll do that.
Til then, block as needed.

I do see - that a very irritating spammer - M15 or whoever - has seemingly
disappeared!


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