anti-spam measurements

Posted by mikael b on November 22, 2008, 6:07 am

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How can we report AND filter spam in this group. I'm not updated on
Usenet type of groups, but I'd rather use a newsreader and miss the
spam altogether.

Any suggestions?

Posted by RickMerrill on November 22, 2008, 7:51 am

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mikael b wrote:

> How can we report AND filter spam in this group. I'm not updated on

> Usenet type of groups, but I'd rather use a newsreader and miss the

> spam altogether.

> Any suggestions?

re: anti-spam: mung the domain of your email address to
micke.bystrom at gmail.NOSPAM.com (OR SOMESUCH) to prevent
robots from harvesting your address.

re: report? forgedaboudit

Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on November 22, 2008, 8:11 am

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mikael b wrote:

> How can we report AND filter spam in this group. I'm not updated on

> Usenet type of groups, but I'd rather use a newsreader and miss the

> spam altogether.

> Any suggestions?

Since Google Groups is the largest source of spam on Usenet, you could
subscribe to a news service and use a real newsreader with filtering
capabilities.

I use the following filter in 40tude Dialog:

[*] #filtering that applies to all groups
!markread Message-ID googlegroups.com

..and only saw your post because Rick replied to you.

Note to other regulars using GG. There is also the capability to
whitelist individuals, with additional following filters, such as:

Don't bother trying to report your fellow GGers. Google doesn't give a
crap about it.

http://www.improve-usenet.org/

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Posted by David E. Ross on November 22, 2008, 12:27 pm

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On 11/22/2008 3:07 AM, mikael b wrote:

> How can we report AND filter spam in this group. I'm not updated on

> Usenet type of groups, but I'd rather use a newsreader and miss the

> spam altogether.

> Any suggestions?

Actually, this particular newsgroup has very little spam.

The main problem with spam in newsgroups is that your own E-mail address
will be harvested for spam address books. The solution is to munge your
address or use a fake address. While my From address is fake, you can
get my actual address from the Organization header; even there, I've
contrived to hide it from the harvesters because they search the entire
message, not merely the visible parts.

Greater newsgroup problems than spam are the flooders (those who
generate many, many meaningless message just to prove they can disrupt
discussions) and the flamers (those who post highly inflammatory
messages -- generally off-topic -- just to get attention). A good
newsreader will have filters to handle them.

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Posted by Bergamot on November 22, 2008, 12:48 pm

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mikael b wrote:

> How can we report AND filter spam in this group. I'm not updated on

> Usenet type of groups, but I'd rather use a newsreader and miss the

> spam altogether.

I wouldn't bother reporting, unless you want to make that your full-time
job. As for filtering, dump google groups and sign up with a news
service that has decent filtering already in place.

news.individual.net does a good job. It's not free, but is dirt cheap.

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