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  • Nearly All Usenet SPAM is posted from Google Groups

    From RWC@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 19 22:36:45 2023
    This, and ensuing complaints, likely had a major influence on Google
    pulling the plug in February.

    Let's hope these spammers do not adopt another free web based
    newsreader.

    Nova, to its great credit, seems able to filter out these spam posts.

    Perhaps Retro Guy and his admin colleagues constantly monitor
    posts from Google Groups and manually delete spam messages, from
    the Nova web-accessed Usenet database, as they come in?


    Geoff

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to Dean F. on Wed Dec 20 04:53:51 2023
    Dean F. wrote:

    On Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 10:36:51 PM UTC-5, RWC wrote:

    Nova, to its great credit, seems able to filter out these spam posts.

    Except Nova costs $4.99 a month.

    Where are you getting that from? I'm using it for free right now. I did not see anything about having to pay for it.

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to Dean F. on Wed Dec 20 05:58:43 2023
    Dean F. wrote:

    On Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 11:55:13 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:

    Except Nova costs $4.99 a month.

    Where are you getting that from? I'm using it for free right now. I did not see anything about having to pay for it.

    Can you provide a link to where you signed up?

    It's in one of these threads, posted by Dockery and another guy. Here's the link I use to get here.

    https://www.novabbs.com/arts/thread.php?group=rec.music.rock-pop-r%2Bb.1950s

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  • From Retro Guy@21:1/5 to Dean F. on Wed Dec 20 10:09:05 2023
    On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:48:56 -0800 (PST), Dean F. wrote:

    On Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 10:36:51 PM UTC-5, RWC wrote:

    Nova, to its great credit, seems able to filter out these spam posts.

    Except Nova costs $4.99 a month. And I'm not paying for Usenet access
    when this is the only group I ever look at.

    That's news to me, and I'm the Admin of the site :)

    There is no cost. If someone is collecting $4.99 a month, I wish they
    would send it to me, lol.

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  • From Retro Guy@21:1/5 to RWC on Wed Dec 20 10:23:32 2023
    On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:36:45 -0500, RWC wrote:

    This, and ensuing complaints, likely had a major influence on Google
    pulling the plug in February.
    <snip>
    Perhaps Retro Guy and his admin colleagues constantly monitor posts from Google Groups and manually delete spam messages, from the Nova
    web-accessed Usenet database, as they come in?

    The spam filtering is a coordinated effort between several Usenet News administrators, including myself.

    It is mostly automated (not entirely), and we share the filtering results
    with any Usenet News server that wishes to apply them.

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  • From RWC@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 20 06:54:38 2023
    On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 10:23:32 +0000, Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.org>
    wrote:

    The spam filtering is a coordinated effort between several Usenet News >administrators, including myself.

    It is mostly automated (not entirely), and we share the filtering results >with any Usenet News server that wishes to apply them.

    Retro Guy, could you offer any clues as to what filters you use
    so that individual Usenet users can develop filters themselves if
    their newsreader (eg Mozilla Thunderbird) allows filters to be set?

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  • From MummyChunk@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 20 12:45:57 2023
    On Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 10:36:51PM UTC-5, RWC wrote:

    Nova, to its great credit, seems able to filter out these spam
    posts.

    Dean F. wrote:


    Except Nova costs $4.99 a month. And I'm not paying for Usenet
    access when this is the only group I ever look at.


    There are plenty of other web front ends that you can use to access
    the group that you do not need to pay for. If you prefer an NNTP
    server, there are a few that are free but you might not see as good
    service or reach as you will, with some of them that have a nominal
    fee.


    This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=657587690#657587690

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  • From Retro Guy@21:1/5 to RWC on Wed Dec 20 12:40:48 2023
    On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 06:54:38 -0500, RWC wrote:

    On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 10:23:32 +0000, Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.org>
    wrote:

    The spam filtering is a coordinated effort between several Usenet News >>administrators, including myself.

    It is mostly automated (not entirely), and we share the filtering
    results with any Usenet News server that wishes to apply them.

    Retro Guy, could you offer any clues as to what filters you use so that individual Usenet users can develop filters themselves if their
    newsreader (eg Mozilla Thunderbird) allows filters to be set?

    Most of us are using highly modified spamassassin setups, tied in to our
    nntp servers.

    The best thing for an end user is to use a nntp server from a provider
    that filters, then you might only need to add a couple of minor filters to
    your T-Bird setup to meet your individual preferences.

    Two free servers:

    www.i2pn2.org (mine) - free / filtered
    www.eternal-september.org (Ray is the admin) - free / filtered

    These two servers are two of the several that provide filtering. Here's a
    link to some more servers, some may filter, some may not:

    https://sybershock.com/#usenet

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