Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:52:02 -0800, Blinky the Shark
> > wrote:
>
>>Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>Are you filtering GG posts? That's a huge, huge help.
>>
>>Unfortinately that's more work with Agent than with many other clients,
>>because Agent itself can't do it and you have to spoon-feed Agent with
>>pre-filtered groups from a local proxy/server that you run on your machine.
>>
>>http://improve-usenet.org/ and click Agent in the menu.
>
> I guess that's my problem... I never used to notice the spam nearly so
> much because my provider filtered some of it out... but the one I use
> now is totally unfiltered so it all comes pouring in and if I want to
> get rid of it I have to do it one header at a time. Needless to say,
> it's driving me to distraction!

The above will kill a lot of it. Not all spam comes from GG, of course,
but the amount that does seem to be increasing every few seconds.
Try some different feeds; perhaps you can find better filtering. They
won't be filtering GG spam, so you'll still have to do that yourself; but
between a well-filtered feed and local GG filtering, you'd be amazed at
how little spam you'll see. I basically don't see any spam in here, for
instance, except for what people reply to and quote.


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