Re: -- Google and Spam

William Elliot wrote:
This is a summary of a previous thread regarding Google and Spam.
I am currently wanting to add to it a list of free alternatives
to Google Groups that others may use in lieu of Google.

I've a report from mina regarding mathforum, which
has small screens for writing and weak searching.
I also hear it doesn't include full references for the threads.
Does anybody else have opinions or comments to make, about mathforum?

I'm tracking 'Reading sci.math without spam' for it's
suggestions which as yet, are not included in this summary.

I'd also like to hear from
David Bernier <david250@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

who wrote

I'm trying out NewsProxy with SeaMonkey Mail&News; maybe it's
doing something good. I'm not sure yet. Also, I'm pretty satisfied
with the $3.95 one-time payment account I have with teranews.
something good. I'm not sure yet. David Bernier

Have you David, a new progress report to make?
From your experiences, what would you suggest?

I was able to download and install NewsProxy.

I don't understand what this means:
<< Select "open news host" and type in "localhost"
as the server. >>
Cf.:
< http://www.saska.co.uk/nfilter/nfilter_faq_modified.html#2.8 >
[ Section 2.8 ]


That refers to the Netscape browser, mail & News Client...

The SeaMonkey suite (browser, mail and News Client) is some
kind of descendant.

The setting up of filters (Section 3 above) is simple.
For those who might be interested, here's a copy of mine:
* drop Message-ID:*googlegroups*
* drop Subject:*UGG*
* drop From:*myshoesdepot*
* drop From:*xiaoshifeng012*

NewsProxy "understood" my filters. I think my problem
was not being able to connect the News client (of
the SeaMonkey suite) to NewsProxy. I tried 127.0.0.1
for NNTP server in the client, but that didn't work.

Section 2.7 explains the procedure for Agent.

So I use the filters that can be set up with my news reader;
I use filters based on Subject: a lot, even if it means
some good posts could be caught in the filters.

David Bernier

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Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

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