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.

In article >,
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.

Don't give up! There are many newsreaders out there that will filter out
the junk easily. I just eliminated all future reference to
world-wholesaler with a single command. It's as easy as getting and
becoming familiar with a better newsreader. Or better learning your own
in some cases. Unfortunately, my newsreader won't work on your system.
My news provider (Supernews) does much filtering for me but crap always
leaks through.
Blinky should cruise along shortly with authoritative help on your
system and on all systems for that matter.

leo

"Karen AKA Kajikit" > wrote in message
...
> 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.


There are many downloadable filters available for the major readers such as
OE, Thunderbird and Agent. You don't have to live with the spam, most of it
can be filtered. Just finding one that filters all gmail is a huge relief.
Filtering by domain other than valid ones is pointless because the spammers
use fake domains with every post usually.

Paul

Karen AKA Kajikit <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.

40tude Dialog looks and acts much like Forte Agent, just 200%
better. And it's free.

Otherwise, do what others here have done and just remove posts with
'From:' addresses of @gmail.com.

Just some suggestions. I'm not going to beg anyone to stay if
that's what you're looking for.

-sw

kilikini 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.
>
> I hear ya, but each time a new spammer comes out, I kill a specific word in
> their subject message. It eliminates 95% of the spam. Stay with us,
> sweetie.
>
> kili

Yes, that's what I do also and it works very well. I wonder if Karen is
making some small error in how she adds to her filter and it really
isn't working correctly...?
For example, today I added the word "rape" to my killfile. So if the
word is in the subject line the entire post is deleted. What will
tomorrow's word be? Who knows.. <sigh>

"Karen AKA Kajikit" > wrote in message
...
> 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.

I just skip over what I don't want to read. Most of the spam is quite
obvious. No biggie.

On Mon 10 Mar 2008 08:52:02p, Blinky the Shark told us...

> 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.
>

Nice site, Blinky. Thanks!

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10wks 6dys 3hrs 35mins
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Goomba38 <Goomba38 >> wrote:

> For example, today I added the word "rape" to my killfile. So if the
> word is in the subject line the entire post is deleted. What will
> tomorrow's word be? Who knows.. <sigh>

What is somebody asks about rapeseed oil? :-P

-sw

On Mon 10 Mar 2008 08:38:28p, Sqwertz told us...

> Goomba38 <Goomba38 >> wrote:
>
>> For example, today I added the word "rape" to my killfile. So if the
>> word is in the subject line the entire post is deleted. What will
>> tomorrow's word be? Who knows.. <sigh>
>
> What is somebody asks about rapeseed oil? :-P
>
> -sw
>

Depends on whether it's interpreting it as a word or just a string of
characters.

--
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10wks 6dys 3hrs 15mins
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It's no disgrace to be poor but it
might as well be.
-------------------------------------------

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.

--
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Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org
Blinky: http://blinkynet.net

Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

> In article >,
> 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.
>
> Don't give up! There are many newsreaders out there that will filter out
> the junk easily. I just eliminated all future reference to
> world-wholesaler with a single command. It's as easy as getting and
> becoming familiar with a better newsreader. Or better learning your own
> in some cases. Unfortunately, my newsreader won't work on your system.
> My news provider (Supernews) does much filtering for me but crap always
> leaks through.
> Blinky should cruise along shortly with authoritative help on your
> system and on all systems for that matter.

Done.

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Wayne Boatwright <Wayne Boatwright
>> wrote:

> On Mon 10 Mar 2008 08:38:28p, Sqwertz told us...
>
>> Goomba38 <Goomba38 >> wrote:
>>
>>> For example, today I added the word "rape" to my killfile. So if the
>>> word is in the subject line the entire post is deleted. What will
>>> tomorrow's word be? Who knows.. <sigh>
>>
>> What is somebody asks about rapeseed oil? :-P
>
> Depends on whether it's interpreting it as a word or just a string of
> characters.

It would be hard to come up with a regex to catch just the word
"rape" in Agent.

ObFood: CostCo Shrimp and Crab Ravioli is a definite buy.
http://www.seviroli.com/foods/produc...pid=26&c=2&s=5

-sw

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.


I sympathize, it seems as if i spend more time filtering this group than
i do reading it.

At some point the nose to signal ration must be considered.
--
JL

Julie Bove wrote:
> "Karen AKA Kajikit" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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.
>
> I just skip over what I don't want to read. Most of the spam is quite
> obvious. No biggie.

I used to do that as well. The problem has grown so much in recent months
that Karen is right, you can hardly find the 'real' posts that dwell amongst
all the 'spam' posts.

Deleting ' -- specific to the 'From' identifier -- nips
virtually all the spam in the bud.

--
Dave
www.davebbq.com

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.


Quitter! ;-)

Bob

In article .net>,
Blinky the Shark > wrote:

> 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.

What would be the most easily configurable solution you could come up
with using Windows and considering a person's willingness to change
client and server and a weakness with the command line? I'm curious
because I have no experience with Windows clients. Just off the top of
that flat doll-eyed head of yours.

leo

Dave Bugg <Dave Bugg >> wrote:

> I used to do that as well. The problem has grown so much in recent months
> that Karen is right, you can hardly find the 'real' posts that dwell amongst
> all the 'spam' posts.

And 8 months ago when I told everyone I was killfiling Google Groups
many of you thought I was full of shit and to just do whatever the
hell I needed to - but the general consensus was that I was being
ridiculous.

I told my detractors at that time that they'd see it my way in a few
months. So now it's time for me to gloat :-P

-sw

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:54:47 GMT, "Julie Bove" >
wrote:

>
>"Karen AKA Kajikit" > wrote in message
.. .
>> 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.
>
>I just skip over what I don't want to read. Most of the spam is quite
>obvious. No biggie.
>
I did that too... until it got so that well over 50% of the messages
coming in were spam!

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!

Sqwertz wrote:
> Goomba38 <Goomba38 >> wrote:
>
>> For example, today I added the word "rape" to my killfile. So if the
>> word is in the subject line the entire post is deleted. What will
>> tomorrow's word be? Who knows.. <sigh>
>
> What is somebody asks about rapeseed oil? :-P
>
> -sw

LOL, I'll take that chance

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:02:20 GMT, "Dave Bugg" >
wrote:

>Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Karen AKA Kajikit" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> 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.
>>
>> I just skip over what I don't want to read. Most of the spam is quite
>> obvious. No biggie.
>
>I used to do that as well. The problem has grown so much in recent months
>that Karen is right, you can hardly find the 'real' posts that dwell amongst
>all the 'spam' posts.
>
>Deleting ' -- specific to the 'From' identifier -- nips
>virtually all the spam in the bud.

I tried it and it got rid of 456 messages at one go. I didn't know you
could do that... I just hope that it actually works and gets rid of
enough junk that I have a prayer of reading the group again.

Goomba38 > wrote in
:

> For example, today I added the word "rape" to my killfile. So if the
> word is in the subject line the entire post is deleted. What will
> tomorrow's word be? Who knows.. <sigh>
>

So if rapeseed or rape oil in in the title you can't see it?

--

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A man in line at the bank kept falling over...when he got to a teller he
asked for his balance.

hahabogus wrote:
> Goomba38 > wrote in
> :
>
>> For example, today I added the word "rape" to my killfile. So if the
>> word is in the subject line the entire post is deleted. What will
>> tomorrow's word be? Who knows.. <sigh>
>>
>
> So if rapeseed or rape oil in in the title you can't see it?
>
Supposedly. Today when there was a new batch of spam in RFC, and rape
was in the topic of some, I knew I had to add it to the filter list.

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> On Mon 10 Mar 2008 08:52:02p, Blinky the Shark told us...
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Nice site, Blinky. Thanks!

Thanks, Wayne. And I hope it's useful.

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"Karen AKA Kajikit" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:02:20 GMT, "Dave Bugg" >
> wrote:
>
>>Julie Bove wrote:
>>> "Karen AKA Kajikit" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I just skip over what I don't want to read. Most of the spam is quite
>>> obvious. No biggie.
>>
>>I used to do that as well. The problem has grown so much in recent months
>>that Karen is right, you can hardly find the 'real' posts that dwell
>>amongst
>>all the 'spam' posts.
>>
>>Deleting ' -- specific to the 'From' identifier -- nips
>>virtually all the spam in the bud.
>
> I tried it and it got rid of 456 messages at one go. I didn't know you
> could do that... I just hope that it actually works and gets rid of
> enough junk that I have a prayer of reading the group again.

I just tried what you did and got rid of about a thousand. I've been
watching the other suggestions in this thread also and most of the spam now
doesn't show up with word filters in the "News Rules". Looks a lot cleaner
now.
Hoges in WA

Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

> In article .net>,
> Blinky the Shark > wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> What would be the most easily configurable solution you could come up
> with using Windows and considering a person's willingness to change
> client and server and a weakness with the command line? I'm curious
> because I have no experience with Windows clients. Just off the top of
> that flat doll-eyed head of yours.

Win news clients with GUIs? Xnews, Dialog, perhaps Gravity (although I
have less experience with the latter). Xnews is my primary Win news
client; from my evaluations (and I have seven or eight clients installed,
configured, and usable at the click of an icon) Dialog is pretty close to
Xnews, and my admittedly less time with Gravity left me with a pretty good
feeling that it. I would avoid the ones with weak filtering, because you
have to pre-chew your feed for them; i.e., you have to use a local server
or proxy between your external feed and the client, to do the filtering
tha the client can't. An example is TB; while I recommend it over OE (as
I would a three-legged hound with mange) its *news* filtering is almost
worthless (oddly, its mail filtering is okay). If you make the move, keep
this in the back of your head: news.software.readers It's the de facto
support group for Xnews and it gets plenty of Dialog traffic; there are
experts in both there; it's a very good group. And filtering info for
your choice is probably available, of course, at the UIP.


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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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Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> On Mon 10 Mar 2008 08:38:28p, Sqwertz told us...
>
>> Goomba38 <Goomba38 >> wrote:
>>
>>> For example, today I added the word "rape" to my killfile. So if the
>>> word is in the subject line the entire post is deleted. What will
>>> tomorrow's word be? Who knows.. <sigh>
>>
>> What is somebody asks about rapeseed oil? :-P
>>
>> -sw
>>
>
> Depends on whether it's interpreting it as a word or just a string of
> characters.

Ah! Another Xnewser that's hip to the scene.

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Goomba38 wrote:

> Sqwertz wrote:
>> Goomba38 <Goomba38 >> wrote:
>>
>>> For example, today I added the word "rape" to my killfile. So if the
>>> word is in the subject line the entire post is deleted. What will
>>> tomorrow's word be? Who knows.. <sigh>
>>
>> What is somebody asks about rapeseed oil? :-P
>>
>> -sw
>
> LOL, I'll take that chance

And "grapes"?

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Goomba38 <Goomba38 >> wrote:

> hahabogus wrote:
>> Goomba38 > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> For example, today I added the word "rape" to my killfile. So if the
>>> word is in the subject line the entire post is deleted. What will
>>> tomorrow's word be? Who knows.. <sigh>
>>>
>>
>> So if rapeseed or rape oil in in the title you can't see it?
>>
> Supposedly. Today when there was a new batch of spam in RFC, and rape
> was in the topic of some, I knew I had to add it to the filter list.

What a painful way to filter. You shouldn't have to chase words in
subjects around like that. Pretty soon it will take you longer to
process news than it takes to read it. (Well, OK, maybe I'm
exagerating).

Just kill " like others have resorted to and reported
success.

-sw

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> Goomba38 <Goomba38 >> wrote:
>
>> hahabogus wrote:
>>> Goomba38 > wrote in
>>> :
>>>
>>>> For example, today I added the word "rape" to my killfile. So if the
>>>> word is in the subject line the entire post is deleted. What will
>>>> tomorrow's word be? Who knows.. <sigh>
>>>>
>>>
>>> So if rapeseed or rape oil in in the title you can't see it?
>>>
>> Supposedly. Today when there was a new batch of spam in RFC, and rape
>> was in the topic of some, I knew I had to add it to the filter list.
>
> What a painful way to filter. You shouldn't have to chase words in
> subjects around like that. Pretty soon it will take you longer to
> process news than it takes to read it. (Well, OK, maybe I'm
> exagerating).
>
> Just kill " like others have resorted to and reported
> success.
>
> -sw

Ha! I only did it two hours ago and I'm loving it already.

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:15:28 -0400, 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.

I use Agent. All I need to do is filter the subject or author.
Voilà, gone. During the last spam attack, I picked key words to
filter... but this one isn't bothering me as much as the last.

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On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:35:07 -0700, Leonard Blaisdell
> wrote:

>I just eliminated all future reference to
>world-wholesaler with a single command.

Agent can do that too, if you're willing to take an extra step.

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On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:31:23 -0400, Karen AKA Kajikit
> wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:54:47 GMT, "Julie Bove" >
>wrote:
>
>>
>>"Karen AKA Kajikit" > wrote in message
. ..
>>> 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.
>>
>>I just skip over what I don't want to read. Most of the spam is quite
>>obvious. No biggie.
>>
>I did that too... until it got so that well over 50% of the messages
>coming in were spam!

WOW! I guess Giganews is doing its job after all.

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On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:54:12 -0400, Goomba38 >
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>For example, today I added the word "rape" to my killfile. So if the
>word is in the subject line the entire post is deleted. What will
>tomorrow's word be? Who knows.. <sigh>

You found "rape" in this ng? Once again.... Giganews filters are
working better than I thought.

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hahabogus wrote:

> Goomba38 > wrote in
> :
>
>> For example, today I added the word "rape" to my killfile. So if the
>> word is in the subject line the entire post is deleted. What will
>> tomorrow's word be? Who knows.. <sigh>
>>
>
> So if rapeseed or rape oil in in the title you can't see it?

Depends on how she set up the filter, and that information has not been
posted. She *said* she was filtering on "the word". But depending on how
she wrote the filter and if she's using regex or not, and if so what
flavor of regex, she it might not catch "rapeseed". That depends on if
she's specified word boundaries around the string rape or not, for
instance.


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Sqwertz wrote:
> Dave Bugg <Dave Bugg >> wrote:
>
>> I used to do that as well. The problem has grown so much in recent
>> months that Karen is right, you can hardly find the 'real' posts
>> that dwell amongst all the 'spam' posts.
>
> And 8 months ago when I told everyone I was killfiling Google Groups
> many of you thought I was full of shit and to just do whatever the
> hell I needed to - but the general consensus was that I was being
> ridiculous.
>
> I told my detractors at that time that they'd see it my way in a few
> months. So now it's time for me to gloat :-P

A bit of balsamic goes well with gloat :-)

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Sqwertz wrote:
> Dave Bugg <Dave Bugg >> wrote:
>
>> I used to do that as well. The problem has grown so much in recent
>> months that Karen is right, you can hardly find the 'real' posts
>> that dwell amongst all the 'spam' posts.
>
> And 8 months ago when I told everyone I was killfiling Google Groups
> many of you thought I was full of shit and to just do whatever the
> hell I needed to - but the general consensus was that I was being
> ridiculous.
>
> I told my detractors at that time that they'd see it my way in a few
> months. So now it's time for me to gloat :-P

I always say, there is nowt like a good gloat!

Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
> I tried it and it got rid of 456 messages at one go. I didn't know you
> could do that... I just hope that it actually works and gets rid of
> enough junk that I have a prayer of reading the group again.

The problem for me is, that some lovely people here post from google and I
am not willing to miss their posts. I can see the junk and I just ignore
it.

"Dave Bugg" > wrote in message
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> Sqwertz wrote:
>> Dave Bugg <Dave Bugg >> wrote:
>>
>>> I used to do that as well. The problem has grown so much in recent
>>> months that Karen is right, you can hardly find the 'real' posts
>>> that dwell amongst all the 'spam' posts.
>>
>> And 8 months ago when I told everyone I was killfiling Google Groups
>> many of you thought I was full of shit and to just do whatever the
>> hell I needed to - but the general consensus was that I was being
>> ridiculous.
>>
>> I told my detractors at that time that they'd see it my way in a few
>> months. So now it's time for me to gloat :-P
>
> A bit of balsamic goes well with gloat :-)


Mix the balsamic with either ground peanuts or peanut butter (either one,
whichever you can afford) and make a rub and massage it into the gloat then
cook it on a grill. A hot flaming grill is best.

Paul