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  • Is this group moderated? So much SPAM

    From Brian Seeley@3:770/3 to All on Fri Jul 16 18:13:17 2021
    Is this group moderated? So much SPAM
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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@3:770/3 to Brian Seeley on Sat Jul 17 06:02:11 2021
    On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:13:17 -0700 (PDT), Brian Seeley wrote:

    Is this group moderated? So much SPAM

    It's not. You couldn't just post here otherwise.

    Seems you use Google Groups. You could at least flag these messages as
    spam. Better use a real newsserver known to have a good clean sweep.
    --
    Andreas

    https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/
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  • From Daniel@3:770/3 to Brian Seeley on Sat Jul 17 02:40:25 2021
    Brian Seeley <bkseeley@gmail.com> writes:

    Is this group moderated? So much SPAM

    I've never known of anyone moderating this NG. I setup a pretty broad
    filter so I never see them.

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    Daniel
    Visit me at: gopher://gcpp.world
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  • From Robert Bernardo@3:770/3 to All on Sat Jul 17 14:59:17 2021
    I have been marking messages as spam or as hateful content. I don't know if this is doing any good.

    Truly,
    Robert Bernardo
    Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
    Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
    Nov. 6-7 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2021 - http://www.portcommodore.com/class
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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@3:770/3 to Brian Seeley on Sun Jul 18 01:47:02 2021
    Brian Seeley <bkseeley@gmail.com> wrote:
    Is this group moderated? So much SPAM

    Very little spam here on Aioe.org (some in other groups though,
    almost all coming _from_ Google Groups). Google don't have a
    reputation for caring much about their Usenet interface, you'd
    be better off moving to a real newsserver where the admin is
    active in filtering spam. Aioe in particular doesn't suit
    everyone, but there are lots of options.

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  • From Lawrence Woodman@3:770/3 to Brian Seeley on Sun Jul 18 06:22:51 2021
    On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:13:17 -0700 (PDT), Brian Seeley wrote:

    Is this group moderated? So much SPAM

    The only SPAM I get on this group is similar messages in Italian
    which always contains the word 'PEDOFILO' in the subject so I just
    set a scoring rule to ignore threads with that in the title.
    Hopefully, you can do something similar.

    Best wishes


    Lorry


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  • From Chris Baird@3:770/3 to All on Mon Jul 19 05:48:21 2021
    A proper newsreader has killfiles and scorefiles.
    You can figure out how to use them ..or maybe you can't.

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    Chris,,
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  • From Seeley Finance@3:770/3 to Chris Baird on Mon Jul 26 16:36:58 2021
    On Sunday, July 18, 2021 at 3:48:27 PM UTC-4, Chris Baird wrote:
    A proper newsreader has killfiles and scorefiles.
    You can figure out how to use them ..or maybe you can't.

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    Chris,,

    Thanks Chris - not helpful
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  • From Chris Baird@3:770/3 to All on Tue Jul 27 19:02:07 2021
    Thanks Chris - not helpful

    Everyone please ignore that killfiles/filtering
    exists in Newsreaders because That Guy has doesn't
    have the hugcircle attitude. All Decent People
    want to help those who don't want to Google things
    for themselves.

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    C,,
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  • From Brian Seeley@3:770/3 to Chris Baird on Wed Jul 28 14:14:52 2021
    On Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 5:02:12 AM UTC-4, Chris Baird wrote:
    Thanks Chris - not helpful
    Everyone please ignore that killfiles/filtering
    exists in Newsreaders because That Guy has doesn't
    have the hugcircle attitude. All Decent People
    want to help those who don't want to Google things
    for themselves.

    --
    C,,
    still not helpful...did google what you originally replied
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  • From Tristan Miller@3:770/3 to Robert Bernardo on Mon Aug 2 18:28:07 2021
    Greetings.

    On 17/07/2021 23.59, Robert Bernardo wrote:
    I have been marking messages as spam or as hateful content. I don't
    know if this is doing any good.


    Most likely all this will do is get the group dropped by Google Groups.
    Whether or not this is a good thing depends on whether you view the
    Google Groups gateway to Usenet as a net good.

    Regards,
    Tristan

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    Free Software developer, ferret herder, logologist
    https://logological.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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