clara wrote:
> I subscribed to this newsgroup because I'm very interested in bread
> baking and pastries but instead I find page after page of spam. Did I
> sign up for the wrong thing or have the news groups just been taken
> over? Is there any way to filter out the garbage and only see the
> good stuff?
You're in the right place, but a bunch of groups have been spam and
crank targets.
There are ways to filter the messages you receive, but they depend upon
what you are using to view them. Most news readers have filtering
capabilities, but the details are specific to each one.