Re: spam

quasi <quasi@xxxxxxxx> writes:
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.

Quasi, you're full of crap. Read Tim Skirvin's FAQs before
posting such nonsense please. Preferably read Tim Skirvin's
FAQs and don't post such nonsense at all, but whatever you
do, at least read his FAQs and try to learn how usenet
operates.

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.

And now you conflate the issue by confusing "cancels"
with "filtering". They're different things that work
in different ways and with different results. Your
conflation of the two shows that you don't really
understand how usenet works.

You may have had your view of usenet skewed by being a
subscriber to one of the "Completion" and "Uncensored"
news servers. However, even using them as an example,
you're still just plain wrong - Giganews filters. If
you think otherwise, would you like to buy a lovely
English bridge?

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.

Well, you subscribe to a service which filters, and
you're demonstrably painfully unsophisticated, so you
might actually be right about one thing. But you're
only a small sample of 1, so I won't generalise yet.


Phil
--
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all.
-- Microsoft voice recognition live demonstration
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