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Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / April 2008The spam on this board is out of control!!!
I just spent a few minutes reporting some of the spammers on this board... not sure if it will do any good. Is there anything else besides reporting it that can be done? mom0f4boys <momshea4@msn.com> wrote in news:2efe35c6-9bac-4bab-afa9-80ea865ac1c3@s50g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com: > I just spent a few minutes reporting some of the spammers > on this > board... not sure if it will do any good. Is there > anything else besides reporting it that can be done? get a newsreader with a good filter. you are reading through googlegroups, which has to be the *worst* way possible to read Usenet. there are excellent dedicated newsreaders, some of which are free & some you can buy. i use xNews, which is free. you can use Outlook Express to read news, & it's a step up from reading googlegroups but nowhere as good as an actual newsreader. if msn doesn't have a NNTP server, there are a few free servers, & several excellent pay subscription servers out there you can use. i do see a few spam posts, but not more than 5-6 per week. lee  SignatureLast night while sitting in my chair I pinged a host that wasn't there It wasn't there again today The host resolved to NSA. > I just spent a few minutes reporting some of the spammers on this >board... not sure if it will do any good. Is there anything else >besides reporting it that can be done? Killfiles. That's about it. Banty > In article > <2efe35c6-9bac-4bab-afa9-80ea865ac1c3@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Banty Is there a way to killfile the stupid watch spam? It's coming under so many different emails. Of course when I saw 1 spam from them I didn't even consider buying from a watch. Now I've seen upwards of 200 messages I suddenly feel compelled to buy ;-P Debbie >> In article >> <2efe35c6-9bac-4bab-afa9-80ea865ac1c3@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >watch. Now I've seen upwards of 200 messages I suddenly feel compelled to >buy ;-P Killfile on "rolex" in subjects lines of all newsgroups. Of course now they're putting entire messages just in the subject line, and they're varying spellings. One problem I have is that it sometimes gets down to what to filter out that wouldn't filter out real messages (you woudn't want to filter out "watch", for example). So sometimes it gets down to using what I call "the real life killfile" - ignoring the ones that are left. Banty >> In article >> <2efe35c6-9bac-4bab-afa9-80ea865ac1c3@s50g2000hsb.googlegro [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > consider buying from a watch. Now I've seen upwards of 200 > messages I suddenly feel compelled to buy ;-P killfile anything posted through googlegroups? lee SignatureLast night while sitting in my chair I pinged a host that wasn't there It wasn't there again today The host resolved to NSA. >> In article >> <2efe35c6-9bac-4bab-afa9-80ea865ac1c3@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >watch. Now I've seen upwards of 200 messages I suddenly feel compelled to >buy ;-P I killfile in certain words in the message. For instance I just made a killfile on "paypal accept" but price or buy or deal would be other possibilities. As Banty pointed out watch might not be a good word. And if I killfile the person who posts where they change something in their name (john96 and then john95) then I killfile the ISP that they say that are using. > In article > <2efe35c6-9bac-4bab-afa9-80ea865ac1c3@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Banty Killfile anything with gmail, googlemail, yahoo.com.cn, and hotmail in the address. Killfile any poster using googlegroups. Killfile messages by keyword such as watches, replica, etc. I miss posts from actual people (such as the OP, who is using googlegroups) but they're not worth all the spam I'd be getting otherwise. >> In article >> <2efe35c6-9bac-4bab-afa9-80ea865ac1c3@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >I miss posts from actual people (such as the OP, who is using googlegroups) >but they're not worth all the spam I'd be getting otherwise. Yes you would - you've set up a way exclusive set of killfiles. New posters often use things like gmail and yahoo, and killfiling things like "watch" means you cut out posts that talk about, say, having a big brother watch a little brother in the playground. So I tolerate some 'leakyness' in the killfiles, and just scan over the ones that remain. And set up killfiles according to what I see there if they get to be too much. Banty >>> In article >>> <2efe35c6-9bac-4bab-afa9-80ea865ac1c3@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > little > brother in the playground. If these kids of posts get a response from a regular, then I'll see them. > Killfile anything with gmail, googlemail, yahoo.com.cn, and hotmail in the > address. Killfile any poster using googlegroups. > I miss posts from actual people (such as the OP, who is using googlegroups) > but they're not worth all the spam I'd be getting otherwise. I post via Google Groups, and so do a lot of other real people here. Many others use gmail, hotmail, etc. If you killfile all of us, it seems to me you might as well not bother reading the group. I think reporting the spam does help, somewhat. When I am in the mood I go on a reporting streak. Pologirl |
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