On May 13, 11:42 am, Allen <al...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Don Stauffer in Minnesota wrote:> I notice the spam flood has virtually
disappeared from the other four
> > newsgroups I subscribe to. It only seems to continue on rpd.
>
> > I know on one of my groups someone took action somehow to convert all
> > of those spam message titles to the word "spam", so it may be that
> > server administrators on host servers may have something to do with
> > overcoming the flood. Don't know why it is continuing on rpd, but it
> > would be nice if this group somehow follows what is happening on rest
> > of Usenet.
>
> This subject has been covered several times lately. If you go to Google
> Groups (unfortunately, one of the worst offenders) you can see probably
> hundreds of suggestions on the subject. For starters, though, if you
> will create filters for senders whose addresses contain gmail, google,
> 126.com, 163.com or .cn, you will reduce the number greatly. I don't
> know what news reader you use, but in Thunderbird I put the ones going
> through Google in the filters for each individual group (in some groups,
> some valuable contributors use it) but I put 126, 163 and cn in the
> filter for the entire news system. Good luck!
> Allen
But why do I not need to do any of this for the other four newsgroups
I subscribe to?
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