On 7/30/2014 1:52 PM, Janet Wilder wrote:
> On 7/30/2014 11:59 AM, S Viemeister wrote:
>> I like the spam filtering on nin - I wonder if Astraweb is as good in
>> that regard?
>
> SPAM does get through, but it's easy to spot and there isn't a lot of
> it. I think modern spammers don't even know about Usenet.
>
> Astraweb does offer a newsreader, which I believe is free, that is
> supposed to work well with their news server. I am so used to
> Thunderbird that I don't want to start fooling with anything else.
>
> You can set filters on your own newsreader, you know.
>
Yes, and I do, but there's always something new - with nin, in most
cases I only become aware of spam if some idiot responds to it!