"Kay" wrote in message
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In article , writes
Sacha wrote:
On 26/7/05 12:30, in article
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"Martin" wrote:

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:59:51 +0100, Judith Lea
wrote:

Could anyone tell me how to stop newsgroup spam - I have reported it
to
Demon but nothing seems to be happening - is there anything I can do
this end?

Try filtering out the subject and the posters?

Hardly. A mailbomb attack depends on each of the 1000 or so emails
having a different subject and apparent poster.

Nobody can filter the amount of junk that's been sent to this group
lately.
Judith needs an ISP that helps to do some of that. Freeserve, who I
used,
seemed to stop a lot of it, but not all of it.

... but with a decent newsreader it's trivial to ignore even that huge
amount of junk. It took me only a few seconds to realise what had
happened, look to see if anything interesting was interspersed and
then 'mark as read' the whole lot.

Fine if you have broadband but a pain if you have to wait for that lot
to download over a phone connection.

--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

Well as soon as I saw the number of headers I assumed this was not all my
missing posts :~) and stopped after down loading all the headers, all the
Urg stuff was at one end so I just marked everything as read then marked the
urg messages as unread and flagged them to down load next time, bit of a
pain but certainly not bad enough to change anything and I am using OE. took
about 60 seconds to sort.
I did not look at the other stuff, where did it come from? (I know someone
said it was from Hongkong) surely no one would bother to make up that many
messages just to annoy a few gardeners?

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)