I have been using Google Groups to access the rec. There doesn't seem to be any way to filter these idiot spammers in Google. What would you recommend as an alternative?
Steve
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19 years ago
Any Way to Avoid the SPAM
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19 years ago
Don't read the articles that don't have a subject line that interests you.
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I subscribe to news.individual.net for 13 bucks a year. The flood was in the group last night, and gone today. They filter aggressively and block almost all the spam I see people complain about. You can use any newsreader software on any system to access it.
They were free for many years, went paid recently (as of today, in fact), and I happily paid up. The servers are stable, quick, and clean.
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19 years ago
How ironic to hear that coming from you, Fred.
-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?
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While Google is a great tool for searching newsgroup archives for specific information, if you're looking for something for reading groups on an ongoing basis, pretty much anything else, even Outhouse Express, is better.
"Which newsreader to use" is a topic that comes up here pretty often. You could use Google :-) to search for more info on that, but the newsreaders most often recommended seem to be Agent, Free Agent, and Gravity.
-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?
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interests
How so?
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Someone has a website that mirrors that group, I think? Dunno, hasn't been enough of an annoyance for me to look into. I'd like to have a feed for that, though.
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Just a passing thought. Have you tried seeing if your ISP has a NNTP server and using your browser's newsreader to access it? Then you'd have whatever anti-spam capailities come with it and the ability to ad newsproxy/netfilter.
Dave in Fairfax
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Download Netscape 7.1 and use their news reader. It works just fine and has "fair" filtering. It pretty friendly and the idjits don't try to fool with Netscape like they do to IE...
Mr Fixit eh wrote:
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If by idjits you mean people who put malicious code into their articles then it doesn't matter if they try or not. Netscape doesn't try to interpret and execute inline ASCII.
If by idjits, you mean the authors of Netscape and IE, I quite agree. Only an idjit would write an appication for reading an ASCII medium that interprets inline ASCII as executable code, especially when you consider that several newsgroups exist for he purpose of discussing code.
Unfortunately the idjits who have been modifying Google recently seem to think its a good idea to interpret inline ASCII as formatting instructions. That's almost as bad.
I'll bet OE doesn't use CDS either. Google must, other wise it'd be crashing all the time.
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Do you *really* need that spelled out for you?
-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?
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19 years ago
Naah, ferd just wants to waste your time.
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Well, I've already got 4 different news servers setup right now; I guess one more won't hurt... :)
Cl> > But they don't support binaries groups, like
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I already spelled out for you that I was very interested in a particular topic and therefor wanted to discuss in a newsgroup in which it was on-topic.
There no way an honest person would represent that I was not interested in the subject. I thought perhaps you were going to do that.
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Why 4? I can see 2, but what are you getting from where if I may ask?
Dave
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I'm talking about your repeated badgering of Dave Hinz to stop posting off-topic. If his OT posts bothered you that much, the solution is _real_simple_, Fred. As you said yourself --
Don't read them.
-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?
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posting
I also spelled out for Mr Hinz that I was very interested in that particular topic and therefor wanted to discuss in a newsgroup in which it was on-topic.
There no way an honest person would represent that I was not interested in the subject. It appears that is what you are doing now, just as he did.
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The other ones (besides my regular ISP) are MS servers. One private beta group, one public, and one private partner group. Kind of a pain in the patotie, to be honest. Different passwords on both of the private ones, as well.
Cl>> Well, I've already got 4 different news servers setup right now; I guess >> one
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Mind citing a post in which you said that? From here, it looked more like you were just being argumentative. Just like you are now.
-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?