On 2008-04-04, Paul M. Hobson <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I use Thunderbird and try to create sufficiently generic filters. Some
> days I just end up hitting 'k' on the keyboard a bunch until everything
> goes away.
>
> cmcanulty wrote:
>> Does anyone have a newsgroup reader that gets rid of the spam entries?
>> This group is getting to be 90+% spam! I use google currently,
Alas, a substantial majority of the spam on usenet seems to come from
Google Groups. Simply adding a check for the header line "Organization:
http://groups.google.com" to my kill file dramatically reduces the
amount of spam I see. Unfortunately, people like the OP of this
thread are also blocked, which is why I am not responding directly to
his post. I didn't see it until someone posted a reply outside of
Google Groups.
It's a shame, but Google steadfastly ignores spam complaints on Google
Groups. I find it curious because their gmail service is actually quite
effective at culling spam.
So, to the original poster I suggest finding a real news server instead
of the Google Groups web interface, and then killfiling anything
originating from Google Groups.
It works.
--
John (
[email protected])