Re: SPAM is killing this newsgroup!

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:23:39 -0700, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 12:13:47 -0700 (PDT), JeffM <jeffm_@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

MM wrote:
I wonder why some groups haven't been affected by spam yet
while others are under attack..

Maybe spammers don't know what "FPGA" means yet.
...or the activity levels of those groups
aren't denoted as *High* by Google Groups.

Is there a way to protect this group?

Over the last 2 weeks,
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=author:Rich+author:Webb+Hamster+ingroup:sci.electronics&scoring=d
Rich Webb has described how he is configuring Hamster.
news:jqbqt354ddntov7j46f1fhqd63sfird3kk@xxxxxxx
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/browse_frm/thread/c81e08ab4c6f9893/266ddc3204469844?q=*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.can.also.be.checked+allows.either+messages-with-a-score-*-will-be-loaded+zz-zz+qq+after.all.rules.have.been.applied+*-google-groupers-impersonating-others+The.Hamster.scoring.scheme

Jim Thompson
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=author:Jim+author:Thompson+nfilter+ingroup:sci.electronics&scoring=d
has been doing the same with nfilter.
news:bb81690f-1f9b-417e-90eb-2f7b1378a32e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/browse_frm/thread/c6c66638a7a78f10/de1b4abeae5f920e?q=Agent-will-dispose-of-*-flagged-messages+whitelist+adds-text-to-the-Subject-line-*-downloads-*-headers+leaves-*-unmarked-messages-on-*-server+DROP+googlegroups+FLAG+uar+nfilter+all+bye+easy

JT has offered to share his labors toward building a filter file.
news:2195u35vovffmbfrj20i3u5uo0al5564ag@xxxxxxx
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.cad/browse_frm/thread/e993adf4a9c6f61?q=requests-by-E-mail+available.to.all

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
[sig]Add this line to your news proxy nfilter.dat file
[sig]* drop Path:*aioe.org!not-for-mail to drop all aioe.org traffic.

Useful data.

[sig]improve-usenet.org/index.html

The improve-usenet.org site
is written by a guy who would cut off his nose to spite his face.
He describes blunt tools
and doesn't detail how to whitelist useful Google Groupers.
And I'm working on filter schemes to eliminate the master-baiters from
visibility ;-)

However, ultimately it can lead to the demise of newsgroups. Not all people can install filters, for example not on corporate PCs. Others are just occasional visitors and for yet others a proxy is too complicated. Eventually we won't have critical mass anymore.

We should all write to Google and other companies where this spam originates. I did. But unless lots of us do that nothing is going to happen, they probably just won't care what this does to their own reputation.

Google doesn't care, nor have a reputation to fret over. As long as
they rake in the dough, they're happy. What we need to come up with
is a way to totally filter Googlegroups so it doesn't function at all.

Filters won't result in the demise of the newsgroups. It'll convince
Googlegroups users to move somewhere else so their posts are seen.

I'm not bothered in the slightest by Googlegroups...

I maintain a whitelist that I update based on civil/intelligent
replies.

Joerg, Something keeping you from using nfilter ?:-)

...Jim Thompson


Ok, question. For XP machines would the nfilter release "1.2.1-b1" be the correct version?

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
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