| Re: Only SPAM!!! [message #172142 is a reply to message #172138] |
Mon, 31 January 2011 20:27   |
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"Derek Turner" wrote in message news:8qo64vF301U1(at)mid(dot)individual(dot)net...
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:51:28 -0800, Sphinx Khan wrote:
>> OMG! What is going on here! Every group i visit, all i get to see is
>> SPAM!!! Is it too hard to find a discussion group where one can
> connect > with like minded individuals and learn a thing or two.
> Get yourself a decent news server. I see very little spam because
> my service provider filters it out.
This NG is better than most. I don't use a filter so I see only about 10-20%
spam here. The comp.lang.javascript seems to be hardest hit, with probably
90% spam, and it's mostly multiple posts from several users who offer all
sorts of drugs. Maybe they think JS users need them?
It seems that the spammers hit the groups with highest activity as reported
by Google. The JS NG may be shooting themselves in the foot by their
automatic daily FAQ posts. And then the spammers' own activity boost the
metric over the top, so it's very attractive to these pitiful losers. Are
they ever actually rewarded for their efforts with actual "sales" of their
products?
Without a filter, I just play Pacman with the offending posts. Select a
bunch at a time and then hit the DEL key, and bang-bang-bang they all are
shot into the bit bucket. I just wish the confirmation asking if I want to
delete them permanently would actually flash back through cyberspace to the
culprits and physically remove *them*!
The Google news interface is especially bad because it shows most of the
message and not just the subject and sender as decent newsreaders (even the
broken Windows Live Mail 2011 which I use). Many of the spam posts are
intentionally made very long, often with a lot of whitespace, so they fill
up many pages in Google Groups. I have found www.teranews.com to be very
good, and I paid just a $4 setup fee to have a virtually unlimited account.
And xnews is a decent free newsreader.
Paul
www.pstech-inc.com
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