Arabic posts, stop it ...

[Brian Gaff]

Its driving my speech synth crazy!

Brian

[Adrian C]

N.I.N.

HTH

[polygonum]

If feasible, could you sign up to a different news feed - like the Berlin service? I almost never see any Arabic here! They do filter very effectively.

[Dave Liquorice]

What arabic posts? What spam?

news.individual.net is your friend, costs but only 10 euro/year. Well worth it for the very effective filtering.

[Edgar]

I agree.

Edgar

[Fredxxx]

I think you should have a work with the manufacturer asking why it doesn't automatically translate for you?

[Huge]

+1

[S Viemeister]

+2

[Allan]

+3

[Martin Brown]

Indeed. Even Teranews which is a one time fee of $5 for the text groups honours the third party cancels that hunt down such dross. I only ever see them if I happen to download news between the spammer sending them and the auto cancels catching up with the dross.

If you are able to do it set your kill file to reject out of hand anything containing "Subject: =?windows-1256?"

(without the quotes) essentially "is using arabic character set".

[dennis]

See if your news reader will block based on the header contents.

The arabic one contains "charset=windows-1256"

[Tim+]

None on Eternal September either. Filtering isn't normally that great but for a free service it's not bad.

Tim

[Vir Campestris]

Nor Albasani, also free.

Andy

[tim......]

biggest issue is remembering your password once every two years when you have to log back in and amend your payment method because the card expired

tim

[Gazz]

What do they sound like on a speek synth??

i get this idea of it sounding like that war cry they do, interspersed with barely understandable 'death to the infidels' quotes :)

[Huge]

Ahh, but does it do the subsequent explosion?

[damduck-egg]

Bastards. This topic reminded me of that irritating Crazy Frog ringtone that was inflicted by many on many more back in the

1990's,it's become an earworm.

G.Harman