Otis T. wrote:

> I just found this on another one of my groups, posted by someone else:
>
> Most of the newsgroups I read are becoming inundated with spam. I saw a
> post
> claiming a solution and followed its link, http://improve-usenet.org/.
> This site
> says that Google Groups is the conduit for a lot of spam hitting usenet.
> I have
> no connection with this site.
>
> I¹d seen anti-Google Groups stuff before and ignored it. I use a
> dedicated
> newsgroups reader (MT-Newswatcher on Mac) but was never enough of a
> purist to
> care if others posted via Google or not. But the spam was getting to me.
> So I
> followed its instructions and added a filter to Newswatcher: Kill if
> Message-ID
> contains ³googlegroups.com².
>
> Presto. The spam is gone. Some authentic, quality posts may be gone too;
> I don¹t
> know, thus I post this. I¹m sorry if I miss the value that you add to
> this
> group, but I need to keep this filter.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Your two-cents??

He engaged the right filter.


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