Spam Filter?

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It's great that we have this forum for discussing Glider related
topics, but isn't there a way to filter out the carp (intended
misspelling) that's obviously originating from non-pilots about non-
flying-related topics?

[Dan G]

On Aug 20, 8:38 pm, wrote:
> It's great that we have this forum for discussing Glider related
> topics, but isn't there a way to filter out the carp (intended
> misspelling) that's obviously originating from non-pilots about non-
> flying-related topics?

It's possible to report them to google: open the offending message
(and there's a lot of them today!), click "more options" on the top
right of the message, and report it. Please, everyone on the group do
this for every one of the "MI5" messages - if enough people do it
Google will cull them and hopefully block the spammer.


Dan

[[email protected]]

On Aug 20, 12:58 pm, Dan G > wrote:
> On Aug 20, 8:38 pm, wrote:
>
> > It's great that we have this forum for discussing Glider related
> > topics, but isn't there a way to filter out the carp (intended
> > misspelling) that's obviously originating from non-pilots about non-
> > flying-related topics?
>
> It's possible to report them to google: open the offending message
> (and there's a lot of them today!), click "more options" on the top
> right of the message, and report it. Please, everyone on the group do
> this for every one of the "MI5" messages - if enough people do it
> Google will cull them and hopefully block the spammer.
>
> Dan

Actually everybody can save their time. It looks like Google has
already flagged the account this crap is coming from so, I don't kno
how Google blocks things but hopefully we won't see more posts form
the same email address. They probably won't delete the individual
messages.

Handling spam all depends on you are reading the news feed. Usenet
news is just the carrier, within Usenet Google groups is just one of
many cooperating carriers and (through their web interface) client
side viewers onto the Usenet group. Google does not have absolute
control over anything happening on the newsgroup, and BTW the MI5
spammer and many others did not originate from within the Google news
system.

Any decent news reader will provide kill files to help block spammers,
look up the documentation for that. Since the original question was
posted from a Google news session then the options are limited. If you
are using Mozilla Firefox then you can use the greasemonkey plug in
and an available grease monkey script to add kill file type behavior
to the Google web based news reader. It is a kludge but it works. If
you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, time to upgrade to Mozilla
Firefox.

Google for greasemonkey and install that extension to Mozilla. Then go
to http://www.penney.org/google-groups-killfile-updated-2.html and
download the script, use Mozilla to browse to the script on your
filesystem and click on it, you should see greaemonkey then offer to
install it.

Darryl

[Dan G]

On Aug 20, 9:33 pm, " >
wrote:

> Actually everybody can save their time. It looks like Google has
> already flagged the account this crap is coming from so, I don't kno
> how Google blocks things but hopefully we won't see more posts form
> the same email address.

If only. Clearly, the spam is continuing. I stand by my original
advice.


Dan

[Frank Whiteley]

On Aug 20, 3:01 pm, Dan G > wrote:
> On Aug 20, 9:33 pm, " >
> wrote:
>
> > Actually everybody can save their time. It looks like Google has
> > already flagged the account this crap is coming from so, I don't kno
> > how Google blocks things but hopefully we won't see more posts form
> > the same email address.
>
> If only. Clearly, the spam is continuing. I stand by my original
> advice.
>
> Dan

The poster is using newsdemon.com. Copy the entire message including
header to e-mail that the poster is cross-posting
off topic material in violation of the newsgroup charter. His account
will be cancelled, in not already. But then, if it was that important
to post, he bought a cheap, expendable account to get his message out.

Frank Whiteley

[Jack[_4_]]

I did my part... I went to each one and reported it as spam... It
really didn't take too long, but I'll never get those minutes back.

Jack Womack

[[email protected]]

On Aug 20, 3:35 pm, Jack > wrote:
> I did my part... I went to each one and reported it as spam... It
> really didn't take too long, but I'll never get those minutes back.
>
> Jack Womack

Thanks! But with them cross posting to so many groups I'm sure they
get noticed and reported a lot. With the distributed nature of Usenet
things also often take a while for new messages, kill messages if any,
etc. to propogate around.

And yes if you really want to be most effective report it to the
originating ISP/news provider not your current news host..

The barrier to bozos posting this junk is so low that going after the
origination point or news feeds while a good thing to do is just
unlikely to really impact a persistent poster like our MI5 conspiracy
friend. That's one reason why kill files have been around for decades
- and they are the easiest way not to have to even see most of this
junk. And it is *so* satisfying to hit a button or click on something
and never have to see that junk again. And power users with news
readers with kill files that handle pattern matching (regex)
expressions can do even better with a little bit of typing.


Darryl