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Tired of the spam. Good newsreader recommendation? Heidi 04-19-2008
Posted by Heidi on April 19, 2008, 4:39 pm
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 I have outlook express now for mail and news. I want to keep OE for mail and
really
only want a better newsreader so I can block google group posts.

Help me? =/

Heidi



Posted by Ed Jay on April 19, 2008, 5:14 pm
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 Heidi scribed:

>I have outlook express now for mail and news. I want to keep OE for mail and
>really
>only want a better newsreader so I can block google group posts.
>
Agent (or Free Agent) by Forte. <http://www.forteinc.com>
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Ed Jay (remove 'M' to respond by email)

Posted by (PeteCresswell) on April 19, 2008, 5:37 pm
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Per Ed Jay:
>Agent (or Free Agent) by Forte. <http://www.forteinc.com>

I'll second that.
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PeteCresswell

Posted by Blinky the Shark on April 19, 2008, 6:54 pm
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Ed Jay wrote:

> Heidi scribed:
>
>>I have outlook express now for mail and news. I want to keep OE for mail
>>and really
>>only want a better newsreader so I can block google group posts.
>>
> Agent (or Free Agent) by Forte. <http://www.forteinc.com>

But only if she wants to add a local server/proxy to filter the GG posts
she want to be rid of. Like her OE, [F]A can't filter on the Message-ID
header that that filtering requires, so other software to do the filtering
is required between the remote server and the local client.

No, filtering on "gmail" in the From header is *not* a GG filter. It's a
fallback for people who can't filter on the *real* GG criteria --
"googlegroups" in the Message-ID header.


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Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
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Posted by Red E. Kilowatt on April 19, 2008, 10:17 pm
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pan.2008.04.19.22.54.16.587332@thurston.blinkynet.net,

> Ed Jay wrote:
>
>> Heidi scribed:
>>
>>> I have outlook express now for mail and news. I want to keep OE for
>>> mail and really
>>> only want a better newsreader so I can block google group posts.
>>>
>> Agent (or Free Agent) by Forte. <http://www.forteinc.com>
>
> But only if she wants to add a local server/proxy to filter the GG
> posts she want to be rid of. Like her OE, [F]A can't filter on the
> Message-ID header that that filtering requires, so other software to
> do the filtering is required between the remote server and the local
> client.
>
> No, filtering on "gmail" in the From header is *not* a GG filter.
> It's a fallback for people who can't filter on the *real* GG criteria
> -- "googlegroups" in the Message-ID header.

I think it's a pretty reasonable fallback because of how much of the GG
spam also has gmail return addresses.

--
Red



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