On 7/30/2014 1:07 PM, S Viemeister wrote:
> 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!

That's the problem with filters. You filter and someone you like to
read posts the idiot's entire diatribe. That's Usenet!

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