spam on uk.d-i-y

[jim]

The group appears to have run into something of a spam bombing with long junk titles.

Any ideas to defeat the b******ers?

Some releif could be had if a posting title could be changed - but how to do that?

[Phil L]

If you use a newsreader such as Outlook Express, then you can set the maximum number of lines to 50 or 60, this regurgitated s**te is always

192kb, meaning it's a lot more than this.....I've just done it, so thanks, I can't tell you how to do it via Google froups.

[mick]

Thanks for that - it works very nicely in PAN too!

[Emil Tiades]

I don't see them. Of course, I don't use crap like googlegroups

[mike]

Isn't it amazing how many people one sees on NG's that just because they are not using something then it's "crap". Maybe GG's is crap I don't know. But somehow I think crap is often overrated crappee.

[Man at B&Q]

You see the (obvious) spam in the topic list. You ignore it. End of problem.

MBQ

[Clot]

use?