James

Am I getting old and crusty or is this NG getting spammed with filth more
these days?

End User

yeah, is there some kind of filter we can use to block this crap out?
it's happening to all of my newsgroups all of a sudden. it didn't used to
be a problem at all.
god i hate spam.

"James" <Kairoff@msn.com> wrote in message
news:LutLa.47881$XG4.74897@rwcrnsc53...
> Am I getting old and crusty or is this NG getting spammed with filth more
> these days?
>
>

pookeybrain

"James" <Kairoff@msn.com> wrote in message
news:LutLa.47881$XG4.74897@rwcrnsc53...
> Am I getting old and crusty or is this NG getting spammed with filth more
> these days?

It's summer time and the kids are out of school.

Radford

"End User" <nothankyou@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3efeece1_5@news.athenanews.com...
> yeah, is there some kind of filter we can use to block this crap out?
> it's happening to all of my newsgroups all of a sudden. it didn't used to
> be a problem at all.
> god i hate spam.
>
> "James" <Kairoff@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:LutLa.47881$XG4.74897@rwcrnsc53...
> > Am I getting old and crusty or is this NG getting spammed with filth
more
> > these days?

Yes, you're using Outlook Express 6.0. You highlight the offending post, and
select "Message>Block Sender" and the spammer disappears with all of his
posts.

Dances With Crows

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 08:47:01 GMT, Radford staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
> "End User" <nothankyou@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3efeece1_5@news.athenanews.com...
>> yeah, is there some kind of filter we can use to block this crap out?
>> it's happening to all of my newsgroups all of a sudden. it didn't
>> used to be a problem at all.

Usenet in general has had problems with spam since before the Great
Renaming. Ask your local NNTP server admin about spam problems, and
you'll learn more than you ever wanted to know.

> Yes, you're using Outlook Express 6.0. You highlight the offending
> post, and select "Message>Block Sender" and the spammer disappears
> with all of his posts.

Radford: Spammers forge their From: addresses, and they rarely if ever
use the same From: twice. This approach amounts to nothing more than a
neverending whack-a-mole game. It's better than nothing but still less
than ideal.

The current best way of dealing with spammers is to apply a Bayesian
filter either at the NNTP server or at the NNTP client. Since most ISPs
don't even care about Usenet and wish it'd go away, you'll have a hard
time getting an ISP's NNTP admin to do the extra work. Client-side
filters are easier to set up, but I'd be surprised if LookOut Express
(any version) does anything but the most basic filtering out of the box.
Better NNTP clients exist; slrn, tin, pan, emacs, Knode, and Forte Agent
are 6 of them.

Finally, I haven't seen *any* of this spam except in the followups
legitimate posters have posted. news.cis.dfn.de has a competent admin
who hates spam, I guess. Good on him!

--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
....In Hong Kong action movies, they don't have Hollywood Guns with
infinite bullet supplies. Instead, they have Hong Kong Pants(tm) which
hold an infinite supply of loaded pistols. --M. Sphar, the Monastery

seahorse25@att.net

On 3 Jul 2003 14:49:40 GMT, Dances With Crows
<danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:

> <snip>
>Radford: Spammers forge their From: addresses, and they rarely if ever
>use the same From: twice. This approach amounts to nothing more than a
>neverending whack-a-mole game.
> <snip>
>==================

ROTFL


> <snip>
> I'd be surprised if LookOut Express (any version) does anything but the
> most basic filtering out of the box. Better NNTP clients exist; slrn, tin, pan,
> emacs, Knode, and Forte Agent are 6 of them.
> <snip>
>==================

Excellent choices!


OOTC: My '02 Santa Fe is now seventeen months old and
not one problem (well --- one flat tire but what-the-hey). It is a
most excellent vehicle. =8-)

S25

Radford

Other than that, I love my 2002 Sonata!