Re: spam

On 07 Apr 2008 23:07:31 +0300, Phil Carmody
<thefatphil_demunged@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

quasi <quasi@xxxxxxxx> writes:
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:41:05 -0700 (PDT), Rotwang <sg552@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
IIRC Phil has the whole of Google Groups killfiled, except for certain
authors, one of whom is you. So your reply to the spam posting will
have been the first time he saw it.

Similarly, I have filters in place which filtered out the orginal
message (so I never saw it), but not the renamed message.

Decent news servers won't even have offered you the
message in the first place.

Wrong.

All the main commercial news servers pride themselves on completeness,
i.e. -- they filter _nothing_. If you want to set up filters on your
end, that's up to you.

If you want a parental control type news server, some ISP-hosted or
university-hosted news servers do that, both to reduce their storage
requirements, and as a service to protect their users, presumably
mostly unsophisticated.

quasi
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