Re: ordering relations for subspaces

On Mar 7, 1:09 pm, William Elliot <ma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Are you aware that more and more people are fed up with all of the
spam that Google dumps upon us and are consequently blocking all posts
from Google Groups?

I do not know too much about network technology. And perhaps for this
reason it is not clear to me that why blocking Google groups will
solve the spam problem. If I can use a newsreader (which apparently I
can't), can't spammers also use a newsreader? Why would experienced
spammers bother to post through Google groups onto a Usenet newsgroup?
Maybe someone could explain this to me.

In addition, I think there must be a better solution to reducing the
spam to an acceptable level. I think by excluding Google posts, there
is an unacceptably high probability of significant and valuable posts
being missed and assumed ignored by those unaware of the non-Google
proposal.

It's advised you get a different news source other than Google Groups.

Despite my previous comments, I am concerned about the level of spam
and would like to switch to a newsreader with filtering. And here I
could use some help.

I am running a Windows system with an ADSL connection from home to an
ISP somewhere in the world and would like to use Mozilla Thunderbird
for my newsreader. But thus far it seems I have been unable to
configure Thunderbird properly to access any newsgroups. Can anyone
give me any pointers?

For "server name", I simply have "sci.math" and use my "Default" port
number. For outgoing SMTP server, I simply have "Use Default Server".
I guess there must be more to it than this and may vary from ISP to
ISP. But if someone could tell me what most people use as settings,
maybe that would be a good start.

Many thanks in advance,
Dan (original poster)
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