On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:02:20 GMT, "Dave Bugg" >
wrote:

>Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Karen AKA Kajikit" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> This group is so overrun with spam nowadays that I can't even find
>>> the real messages amongst the dross, no matter how many different
>>> kill-filters I make to try and get rid of it. I could ignore it while
>>> it was just a small flow, but there's ten times as much 'noise' as
>>> 'signal'! Agent doesn't have the ability to filter posts by domain,
>>> just by author or subject, so I give up.
>>
>> I just skip over what I don't want to read. Most of the spam is quite
>> obvious. No biggie.
>
>I used to do that as well. The problem has grown so much in recent months
>that Karen is right, you can hardly find the 'real' posts that dwell amongst
>all the 'spam' posts.
>
>Deleting ' -- specific to the 'From' identifier -- nips
>virtually all the spam in the bud.

I tried it and it got rid of 456 messages at one go. I didn't know you
could do that... I just hope that it actually works and gets rid of
enough junk that I have a prayer of reading the group again.