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On Apr 8, 6:50 am, [email protected] (Roger Merriman) wrote:
> Andrew Price <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:26:43 +0100, Paul Boyd <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >At the moment I'm deleting anything from googlegroups or gmail (with a
> > >few other filters). Sorry if anyone genuine is using them, but the
> > >spammers are making your choice unusable!
> > Indeed - the risk of their contributions no longer being read is
> > something posters who insist on using the Google interface, instead of
> > a proper NNTP newsreader, should bear in mind.
I guess no one will see this but... I post through googlegroups
because the local firewall won't let the nntp protocol through. Or at
least I haven't found a newsreader that lets me point it at the proxy
- I use Opera as a browser which is much better at proxies than
Firefox; nntp is the only significant omission from its proxy support
list
I've spent an unreasonable amount of time trying to find a way round
this without success so far. I've now got to the stage of considering
writing my own newsreader to get round the problem.
I can understand why people are dumping googlegrops though. The trolls
have never bothered me, I find them easy to ignore, but the spam has
recently got ridiculous.
> true, this said most newbies etc use it, which is also why it's the
> spammers tool of choice.
I was using usenet when t'web wasn't even a gleam in Tim B-L's eye,
and Torvalds was still at school. Can't remember the name of the
newsreader, probably what ever came with BSD. Bit galling to be lumped
with the newbies.
Rob
> Andrew Price <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:26:43 +0100, Paul Boyd <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >At the moment I'm deleting anything from googlegroups or gmail (with a
> > >few other filters). Sorry if anyone genuine is using them, but the
> > >spammers are making your choice unusable!
> > Indeed - the risk of their contributions no longer being read is
> > something posters who insist on using the Google interface, instead of
> > a proper NNTP newsreader, should bear in mind.
I guess no one will see this but... I post through googlegroups
because the local firewall won't let the nntp protocol through. Or at
least I haven't found a newsreader that lets me point it at the proxy
- I use Opera as a browser which is much better at proxies than
Firefox; nntp is the only significant omission from its proxy support
list
I've spent an unreasonable amount of time trying to find a way round
this without success so far. I've now got to the stage of considering
writing my own newsreader to get round the problem.
I can understand why people are dumping googlegrops though. The trolls
have never bothered me, I find them easy to ignore, but the spam has
recently got ridiculous.
> true, this said most newbies etc use it, which is also why it's the
> spammers tool of choice.
I was using usenet when t'web wasn't even a gleam in Tim B-L's eye,
and Torvalds was still at school. Can't remember the name of the
newsreader, probably what ever came with BSD. Bit galling to be lumped
with the newbies.
Rob