Any Ideas on Turning off the Spammer?

"Morgans" wrote

I'll go and check the rest of my received posts for tonight, and report
back.

I would guess I had around 80 junk posts, but when I just reloaded, I have
some more.

Damn!
--
Jim in NC

Bob Noel wrote:
In article ,
Dudley Henriques wrote:

So far nothing even coming close to that here. Just a few showing on the
forum. Not sure, but the IMac using OSX and using Thunderbird as the
news reader programmed for a Mac instead of a PC might be relevant.
DH
The newsreader doesn't have anything to do with how many of those
posts would show up on your news server.

Then why am I showing 10 posts and others are showing many more?

perhaps giganews is doing a better job of filtering at the server than
some of the other news folks.

Could be. I use RCN's news server on the East Coast of the US. They use
the usual array of spam filters I would imagine; at least that's what
they keep telling us anyway :-)
The result here so far has been nowhere near what others have been
reporting as to quantity. Without knowing anything much about these
issues, I would guess that whatever RCN is using to filter is being
effective against this spam threat at least to a point. I'm still
showing several of these posts but not anything really bothersome yet.
DH

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:50:34 -0400, "Doug Semler" wrote in
:

... this thread ... is completely OT for the group ...

Yes, it's OT (as indicated by the "OT" in the subject line)
but not utterly irrelevant to the life of the group.

Some discussion of how Usenet works (or fails to work)
and potential remedies is helpful from time to time.

Or so it seems to me.

Marty
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:05:26 -0400, "Morgans" wrote in :

... If it was supernews (or whoever it was that sent the warning message a week
ago) sending all the crap, (it seems likely that it was them, or someone
doing it under their direction) I wish they could catch them and fine the
crap out of them, and take away all business licenses away from them, if
that is possible. ...

I'm morally certain that it was not Supernews.

I pay them. They don't pay me.

They are one of the best news providers in the business,
in my opinion.

The vandal sent the warning message and signed "Supernews"
to it in order to get folks like you angry at them.

The folks at Supernews aren't vandals.

Marty
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"KB" == Kyle Boatright writes:

KB Suggestions?

Enjoy them. They are as entertaining, and make more sense, than
the off-topic political spews in this group.

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He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so
much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he
kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the
preacher said, "Dust to dust," some people laughed, and the
cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, "I'll be
waiting for you in heaven--with a gun."
- Jack Handey

("Dudley Henriques" wrote)
Oh I can avoid the yard chores all right. They're inanimate. It's my WIFE
looking for me to do the yard chores I can't avoid!!! I've tried 3
different makes of running shoes so far. I think New Balance might turn
out to be the "weapon of choice" :-))


Or you can adopt the Burt Monro method of lawn care. g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwqDHIByRec
World's Fastest Indian (2005)


Paul-Mont

Kyle Boatright wrote:

I'm seeing a huge number of spam postings in this group. I'm sure
they are from a bot, but since the address keeps switching, I don't
know how to block the messages in OE.

Suggestions?

I'm using xananews, and I haven't seen any of it. At work I use outlook
express, and it shows it all.

--
Oz Lander.
Straight and Level Forum.
http://z7.invisionfree.com/Straight_...ex.php?act=idx

Saw the movie. Fabulous guy Monro, and probably one of Anthony Hopkins'
best works recreating him.
DH


Montblack wrote:
("Dudley Henriques" wrote)
Oh I can avoid the yard chores all right. They're inanimate. It's my WIFE
looking for me to do the yard chores I can't avoid!!! I've tried 3
different makes of running shoes so far. I think New Balance might turn
out to be the "weapon of choice" :-))


Or you can adopt the Burt Monro method of lawn care. g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwqDHIByRec
World's Fastest Indian (2005)


Paul-Mont

Martin X. Moleski, SJ wrote:

I am acquainted with one fellow from Supernews through
some committee work we do online. I heard of them
for years before I finally signed up with them. I
think it's pretty safe to say that this is not the
way Supernews drums up business.

Marty

And it seems a second wave of the crap made it though Supernews' filters.
I've got about 50 today and this is the first I've seen of it.

Morgans wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...
Keep in mind I'm not taking a dig at anyone. This is just my way of
dealing with Usenet. If the situation changed as the poster below has
indicated by saying 18K posts have been spammed on one forum, I
would for sure be taking a close look at solving that in whatever
way was needed. DH

I show 2149 posts on this forum, since late last night, to 8 PM. That is a
lot of scrolling, too.

I guess SN is doing a better job than I thought. My total message count from
5pm central to 8:30am this morning was only 127.