Either that or my newsfeed is mucking about. Brian
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Gone quiet again
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In message <ukupqu$1muug$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, Brian Gaff snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com writes
Not sure my current activities would be of any interest:-)
Major tree surgery to our overhanging garden hedge. Planted on the neighbours side of the chain link boundary and gradually allowed to spread by employed gardeners. Three farm trailer loads carted so far!
The other project is an upgrade to the inbuilt Sat Nav system for my aging VW Passat. For reasons connected to exhaust *cheat technology* I am reluctant to take it to a VW agent. I have purchased what is claimed to be an upgrade card from an independent supplier and am now trepidating over conflicting comment/advice found on line:-(
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I expect they are all proceeding with their projects they have been writing about this week.
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Apparently the major Usenet providers are blocking posts from Google Groups due to high spam levels.
It might be that some Google Groups users posts aren’t propagating. Eternal September and News Individual Net have instituted this ‘kill’ policy to great effect.
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Neither of those providers are blocking all googlegroups posts, they are only filtering the spam posts.
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I’m not sure that is universally true, on one group I take the NIN filter is (at a 90+% level) removing the most prolific poster as well as the spam. As his posts are mostly off-topic, this is has proved to be a great benefit.
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Well, here at least, posts from Animal (aka TabbyPurr) and John Walliker still arrive on NIN ... there may be other G2 users here?
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Does that mean the end of 16-year-old homeownershub posts? If only...
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You never know your luck…
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Unfortunately, I don't see Brian's posts any more. IIRC, he uses gmail and I have blocked all gmail posts to stop the spam coming from there.
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FFS time get TomTom GO for your mobile. I have an inbuilt satnav in my car and I have never ever used it
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I know that I regularly download about 60-100 posts a day that are killed by my own killfile
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Who are they? I must have killfiled them years ago.
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Are they still posting? In my killfile..
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The various "banter" posts come from NewsgroupDirect, not googlegroups, both killed here, with some whitelisting of the latter
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blocking on from: contains @gmail.com is the wrong way to go about it, you'll be killing several regulars who don't use googlegroups
instead block on message-id: contains @googlegroups.com
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Yes. I tried 'posting host' but that didn't work for some reason
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I believe you can post on google as any e-mail address, so I tried from an outlook.com account to the thread "a cry for help".... ... I wonder if it appears...
Dave
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yes, you showed up in c.o.vms ...
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Ah, chainlink fences. I wonder what one can do with a tree that has incorporated the fence into some of its limbs. I've never seen this before, its obviously somehow grown around the wire incorporating it. So when you want to replace the fence, it will leave a bit of wire in the tree. Brian