Re: WHY HAS THIS SITE BECOME SUCH A SPAM TARGET???

Phil Carmody wrote:
Killfile _everything_ that comes from googlegroups, and you'll
see almost none of the spam. Spam problem solved.


David R Tribble <david@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...and none of the valid posts (like this one) from poor slobs
like me who are using Google Groups because of the
convenience.

Oh well.


Angus Rodgers wrote:
How do you manage to go on reading sci.math in Google Groups with
this much spam? Do you use some kind of third-party filter?

It wasn't a problem until a few days ago. Before then, I recall
seeing only perhaps 10% of the messages as spam. Lately,
though, it's ballooned to above 95%.

And, yes, I am considering another alternative to Google Groups,
but this will be a pain if it's not a website-based approach, because
I read newsgroups from more than one computer.

But as someone else pointed out, this is only one of a few
newsgroups I peruse regularly, and it seems to be the only
one (so far) afflicted by excessive spamming.

-drt
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