Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing mine to
something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but I'm sick of the
SPAM. You can barely see the real posts for all the damn spamming.

--
Wayne Boatwright
(correct the spelling of "geemail" to reply)
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Date: Friday, 01(I)/16(XVI)/09(MMIX)
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Countdown till Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
2dys 22hrs 5mins
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"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
5.247...
> Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing mine
> to
> something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but I'm sick of the
> SPAM. You can barely see the real posts for all the damn spamming.
>
> --
> Wayne Boatwright

I must be doing something right. I see none.

Steve

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:58:07 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing mine to
>something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but I'm sick of the
>SPAM. You can barely see the real posts for all the damn spamming.

I have a gmail account, and I think the filters work pretty well. Just
deleted, 23 spam- in 2 clicks, that came in over night as opposed to
2 in my Inbox that I wanted.

Wayne be sure you have set up your gmail correctly. Somehow I got in
on the beta version of gmail, long ago, and have been happy all along.
I always wonder why people get so angry at it. I have no clue as to
the reason.

aloha,
Cea

SteveB wrote:

> I must be doing something right. I see none.

Today I've seen 4 spam posts from the same sender, a single "block sender"
command took care of it all: not a single spam post on the ng for me.
--
Vilco
Mai guardare Trailer park Boys senza
qualcosa da bere a portata di mano

"pure kona" > wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:58:07 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing mine
>>to
>>something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but I'm sick of the
>>SPAM. You can barely see the real posts for all the damn spamming.
>
> I have a gmail account, and I think the filters work pretty well. Just
> deleted, 23 spam- in 2 clicks, that came in over night as opposed to
> 2 in my Inbox that I wanted.
>
> Wayne be sure you have set up your gmail correctly. Somehow I got in
> on the beta version of gmail, long ago, and have been happy all along.
> I always wonder why people get so angry at it. I have no clue as to
> the reason.
>

Stupidity.

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing
> mine to something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but
> I'm sick of the SPAM.

I'm not seeing a thing. Either NIN is catching it at the server, or my
filter set is, or a combination.




Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

"ViLco" > wrote in message
...
> SteveB wrote:
>
>> I must be doing something right. I see none.
>
> Today I've seen 4 spam posts from the same sender, a single "block sender"
> command took care of it all: not a single spam post on the ng for me.
> --

The simple, quiet, reasonable way to do it.

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing mine to
> something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but I'm sick of the
> SPAM. You can barely see the real posts for all the damn spamming.

I don't have gmail blocked and I rarely see spam. Perhaps you need a
better newsserver? Or just use better focus words for the filter?

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing
> mine to
> something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but I'm sick of
> the
> SPAM. You can barely see the real posts for all the damn spamming.

I don't like SPAM that much either (or the local equivalent of). It's
Mystery Meat, IMHO.

Oh, you mean spam? - I haven't seen any lately, and I don't have Gmail
users filtered out.

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

With all the spam, especially jewelry ads, being sent by Gmail
accounts, I am willing to miss a few good posts if it helps cut down
on most of the spam that is polluting newsgroups. It seems like it is
working.

With Agent, I just created a filter deleting anything that ends with
@gmail.com. In one group, it immediately removed almost 550 posts.

Mark

On Fri 16 Jan 2009 01:42:11p, l, not -l told us...

>
> On 16-Jan-2009, Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
>
>> Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing
mine
>> to
>> something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but I'm sick of
the
>>
>> SPAM. You can barely see the real posts for all the damn spamming.
>
> All I've been seeing so far is from variations of ;
> fortunately, that is easy enough to filter out so I'm going to try and
ride
> out this storm.

Thanks! I had forgotten I could do it that way.

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Wayne Boatwright
e-mail to wayneboatwright at gmail dot com
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2dys 9hrs 31mins
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Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
5.247:

> Thanks! I had forgotten I could do it that way.

Wayne, set your Xnews in Special | Setup Xnews | Misc to killfile any items
crossposted to more than 3 groups. You can even set it for 2. I never see
this spam you mention and that is the only filter I use.

--

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest
of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest
good of everyone. - John Maynard Keynes

Michel Boucher > wrote in
:


> Wayne, set your Xnews in Special | Setup Xnews | Misc to killfile any
> items crossposted to more than 3 groups. You can even set it for 2.
> I never see this spam you mention and that is the only filter I use.
>


I have mine set to 1 :-)



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


"And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops
for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might
not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be
brought together to repel them?"

Benjamin Franklin 1748

Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
5.247:

> On Fri 16 Jan 2009 01:42:11p, l, not -l told us...

>> All I've been seeing so far is from variations of
>> ; fortunately, that is easy enough to
>> filter out so I'm going to try and
> ride
>> out this storm.
>
> Thanks! I had forgotten I could do it that way.

[.]
sco: =-9999
from: bagsbags

Works for me.

On Fri 16 Jan 2009 08:21:13p, sandi told us...

> Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
> 5.247:
>
>> On Fri 16 Jan 2009 01:42:11p, l, not -l told us...
>
>>> All I've been seeing so far is from variations of
>>> ; fortunately, that is easy enough to
>>> filter out so I'm going to try and
>> ride
>>> out this storm.
>>
>> Thanks! I had forgotten I could do it that way.
>
> [.]
> sco: =-9999
> from: bagsbags
>
> Works for me.
>

Thanks, Sandi! I'll add it.

--
Wayne Boatwright
e-mail to wayneboatwright at gmail dot com
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Date: Friday, 01(I)/16(XVI)/09(MMIX)
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Countdown till Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
2dys 3hrs 29mins
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:58:07 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing mine to
>something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but I'm sick of the
>SPAM. You can barely see the real posts for all the damn spamming.

Adjust your spam filters Wayne! I get a little spam (maybe two or
three and none on this DL of over 300) but not so much I'm annoyed by
it.


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:08:29 -1000, pure kona >
wrote:

>On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:58:07 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:
>
>>Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing mine to
>>something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but I'm sick of the
>>SPAM. You can barely see the real posts for all the damn spamming.
>
>I have a gmail account, and I think the filters work pretty well. Just
>deleted, 23 spam- in 2 clicks, that came in over night as opposed to
>2 in my Inbox that I wanted.
>
>Wayne be sure you have set up your gmail correctly. Somehow I got in
>on the beta version of gmail, long ago, and have been happy all along.
>I always wonder why people get so angry at it. I have no clue as to
>the reason.
>
What does gmail have to do with it? Are you saying you read rfc
through google groups? Gmail does a terrific job of filtering spam,
but it's only email for me.


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:06:25 -0600, FERRANTE
> wrote:

>With Agent, I just created a filter deleting anything that ends with
. In one group, it immediately removed almost 550 posts.

Mark, you're throwing the baby out with the bath water. Learn to use
{ }.


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:05:26 -0800, sf > wrote:

>On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:06:25 -0600, FERRANTE
> wrote:
>
>>With Agent, I just created a filter deleting anything that ends with
. In one group, it immediately removed almost 550 posts.
>
>Mark, you're throwing the baby out with the bath water. Learn to use
>{ }.

Not if he then creates watch filters for the people he wants to see
and gives then a higher priority.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

sf wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:58:07 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>> Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing mine to
>> something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but I'm sick of the
>> SPAM. You can barely see the real posts for all the damn spamming.
>
> Adjust your spam filters Wayne! I get a little spam (maybe two or
> three and none on this DL of over 300) but not so much I'm annoyed by
> it.
>
>
Heck, I'm using Thunderbird as my newsreader and see very little spam,
maybe a couple of pieces a day, tops; I don't have any specific spam
filters set up. I'm guessing the folks at Motzarella have good spam
filters, in fact it would seem their filters are orders of magnitude
better than the ones my ISP used when it still carried Usenet.

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:58:07 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing mine to
>something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but I'm sick of the
>SPAM. You can barely see the real posts for all the damn spamming.

I saw a bit when I used AT&T's server. I was able to filter most of
it out. Since I switched to usenetmonster I see none. You get what
you pay for I guess.

Lou

In article >,
says...
> sf wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:58:07 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing mine to
> >> something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but I'm sick of the
> >> SPAM. You can barely see the real posts for all the damn spamming.
> >
> > Adjust your spam filters Wayne! I get a little spam (maybe two or
> > three and none on this DL of over 300) but not so much I'm annoyed by
> > it.
> >
> >
> Heck, I'm using Thunderbird as my newsreader and see very little spam,
> maybe a couple of pieces a day, tops; I don't have any specific spam
> filters set up. I'm guessing the folks at Motzarella have good spam
> filters, in fact it would seem their filters are orders of magnitude
> better than the ones my ISP used when it still carried Usenet.
>


Check out Popfile, it does both POP and NNTP spam filtering.


But you're right, Mozarella seems to do a good job at limiting the crap.

T wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
>> sf wrote:
>>> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:58:07 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Looks like Gmail accounts have to be blocked again. I'll be changing mine to
>>>> something else. Sorry to all you folks who use Gmail, but I'm sick of the
>>>> SPAM. You can barely see the real posts for all the damn spamming.
>>> Adjust your spam filters Wayne! I get a little spam (maybe two or
>>> three and none on this DL of over 300) but not so much I'm annoyed by
>>> it.
>>>
>>>
>> Heck, I'm using Thunderbird as my newsreader and see very little spam,
>> maybe a couple of pieces a day, tops; I don't have any specific spam
>> filters set up. I'm guessing the folks at Motzarella have good spam
>> filters, in fact it would seem their filters are orders of magnitude
>> better than the ones my ISP used when it still carried Usenet.
>>
>
>
> Check out Popfile, it does both POP and NNTP spam filtering.
>
>
> But you're right, Mozarella seems to do a good job at limiting the crap.
>
>
Thanks for the suggestion; I'll check it out!