Re: Idiot spam attack on sci.lang

Richard Herring skreiv:

In message <4799ac1a$0$21896$8404b019@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Trond Engen <trondnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx skreiv:

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At this rate, it is hardly worth anyone's time to pick through all the crap to find real discussions. Yet I do not like the idea of sci.lang or any other group being destroyed by this sociopath. I accept that it is not possible to get at the source. So is there any other way we can carry on in spite of it?

One individual measure, of course, is to pick the right provider, but with most of them keenly awaiting the death of Usenet and doing nothing to attract new users, there may not be much of a choice where you are.

There's no need for it to be "where you are". There are some big outfits that do nothing but provide news servers - Easynews, Supernews, Giganews, etc. and for a small monthly fee (or even just a one-off registration fee, in some cases) you can connect to them from anywhere.

Just trying not to claim universality for anything. I imagined that such access could be denied by something like a local network blocking for individual configuration of further connections. But I may well be wrong.

This is not a recommendation -- I don't know which of the above does effective filtering, but you could look here for more information:

http://www.newsgroupservers.net/
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/

Thanks. Those may come handy, but, well, I'm lazy and what I have still works for me. I was about to order Giganews a couple of years back when my ordinary internet provider threatened to discontinue its news service. They came to their senses, and I didn't.

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Trond Engen
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