OT: latest spam wave here

[Lobster]

Time has come when I've got to do something about this as the s/n ratio has become so huge that it's getting unworkable to participate in this group.

I'm using Thunderbird coupled with VirginMedia's news server, which seems to be a bad combination as (a) Tbird's filtering capabality is crap (all you can do is filter by subject line or sender - you can't kill googlegroup posts) and VM seem to be particularly rubbish at filtering at source.

So it seems I need to either to change my newsreader to something with better filtering capability, or my news server to one which does better source filtering. Which? Suggestions for either please?!

Thanks David

[Mary Fisher]

It's obvious what the spam is and it comes in chunks which is easy to highlight and delete.

Mary

[geoff]

In message , Mary Fisher writes

what - from eskimos?

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[Adrian C]

Which ye heat, add onions, chilli powder, tomato sauce, MSG (optional) and serve between two slices of white bread....

(yum)

[Mary Fisher]

Bleurch!

But you knew I'd say that :-)

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

A tip which works is to set your rules to not deliver any post which is more than, say, 50 lines long.

But don't do it if you subscribe to any binaries group or you won't see pictures :-(

Mary

[MarkK]

Prompted by your post I've just set this rule up in Outlook Express. It has removed virtually all spam:

Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the Subject line contains 'fake' or 'watch' or 'quality' or 'cheap' or 'paypal' or 'wholesaler' or 'sneaker' or 'prescription' or 'swinger' Delete it

HTH

Mark

[S Viemeister]

I've set Thunderbird to do that. Works beautifully.

[Andy Hall]

From field of "yahoo.cn" can be helpful as well.

[Lobster]

You can with Outlook Express, but not with Thunderbird ... maybe I should just 'downgrade' back to OE!

David

[Lobster]

Thanks, I've got several of those keywords trapped already, plus an awful lot more... I'll add these for now and see how I get on! (Let's hope the spammers don't read this....)

David

[Andy Hall]

No don't do that. Upgrade to a Mac.

[S Viemeister]

:) I've done that, too!

[Stuart Noble]

If I had to go to the trouble of deleting them, they really would annoy me. I mark everything as read on exit so I only get new messages the next time. Then just ignore what you don't want to read

[John Stumbles]

Trouble is you'll delete posts warning about "fake MCBs", "where to get kingspan cheap", "quality of advice given ..." etc.

And of course if you just delete it you won't know about it.

[The Wanderer]

40tude dialog. The filtering is superb.

[DavidM]

Look here for more info

[Roger Mills]

Valid point! I've just set up a rule to highlight such posts in fuschia rather than deleting them - so I can see how many false positives I get, and refine the rule accordingly.

[Andy Cap]

I've lost the OP message but you can filter domains on Thunderbird.

Set up a filter for the Newsgroup A/C, not the particular newsgroup, if you want it to be global :-

From *@googlegroups.com and choose Ignore in the botton pane.

Obviously you can add other Domains to extra rules within the same filter.

If you check enable logging on the same dialogue, later on, you can see what messages have been removed.

Andy C

[Lobster]

But surely doesn't that just clobber posts where the email address (ie in the "From" field) includes @googlegroups.com?

David (OP)