If it's not Islamic loonies, it's World Ultimate Fighting, M15 Persecution or Beware UK Scammers.
Is there anything one can do about this - other that block the sender. Would it achieve anything if we collectively reported them? And to whom?
You cs ignore it or just pass a comment on it if you have a flame or an amusing anecdote or some-such to add to it, then just ignore it.
Google has seen the light about letting us know who started a thread so we don't have to open it to see it.
Prior to this it was a case of writing a new title to the thread ans adding the word spam for spam threads/posts.
I don't bother subscribing to a newsreader, things might be different for others.
You might soon catch on if you stay here.
Forget collectivism. It's never worked and won't work for this.
Unfortunately there are too many easy and mechanised ways of posting spam to email, web sites and newsgroups. There's little positive discrmination and typically these things fade after a few days anyway.
It's not going to be very effective reporting a spammer in PRC or really anywhere else outside western Europe and north America. Even that is marginal.
Really the noise level is quite small and one could filter out posts with keywords in the subject.
|!If it's not Islamic loonies, it's World Ultimate Fighting, M15 Persecution |!or Beware UK Scammers. |! |!Is there anything one can do about this - other that block the sender. |!Would it achieve anything if we collectively reported them? And to whom?
The ISPs disown usenet :-( See sig
It's getting worse. Because the thieves on P2P networks have been switching to Usenet to distribute their stolen media, at least one ISP (Tiscali) has started traffic shaping NNTP (the protocol used to transfer netnews) such that it gets a very low (no) priority at peak times.
Mike Corely (real name Tadeus Szulik) has been quiet lately, either because he's taking his medication, or because he made a *colossal* spam run a few weeks ago, provoked thousands of complaints and lost all his free Usenet accounts. Or both.
Doubtless he'll be back. At least he has the excuse of being genuinely ill.
[Postedit; He's back. In uk.misc, at least. Sigh.]
Just us the filters and kill files.
In what way are "filters and kill files" going to do anything about traffic shaping by one's ISP, bozo?
I've been looking recently at traffic profiles by protocol in various networks. Certainly the consumer ones carry a fair amount of PTP (emule and bittorrent being the largest); but HTTP and FTP remain up there. After this, it's assorted traffic such as Skype but NNTP is very small as a proportion.
It also depends on the profile and business model of the ISP. Some have bandwidth for customers up the wazoo and sell them content while others are more dependent on attractiveness of peering connectivity. If peering is costing them a lot of money vs, the average revenue per customer, they will clearly throttle what they believe to be means to obtain data with no identified revenue opportunity.
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