On 2014-07-30 5:04 PM, Janet Wilder wrote:
> 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!
>

Yep. I tried to filter our village idiot but there are a couple others
who are compulsive responders, quote the entire idiotic post only to add
a line at the end.