getting rid of a newsgroup spammer
 

Anyone know of a way to rid these gardening related newsgroups from
that obviously confused M15 British spammer?
A real pest.

getting rid of a newsgroup spammer
 

ncstockguy wrote in

oups.com:

Anyone know of a way to rid these gardening related
newsgroups from that obviously confused M15 British
spammer? A real pest.

he posts to pretty much every group his current provider
carries & has been doing so since at least 1993. he posts, he
gets his account yanked for spamming, he's quiet for a bit
until he finds a new provider, wash, rinse, repeat, ad
nauseum.
short answer is just report him to his provider & hope it's
not one that doesn't give a damn about spammers. if you do
report him, abuse needs full headers, full text & when & where
you saw the posts (IOW, if you see it on 15 groups, say which
ones, but you only need the headers & text from one).
meanwhile, you're 2 weeks late bitching, as he lost his last
provider about 10 days ago.
lee also getting a real newsreader instead of using Google
helps cut the visible spam immensely

getting rid of a newsgroup spammer
 

also getting a real newsreader instead of using Google
helps cut the visible spam immensely
-- Can you suggest one? Thanks.

On Dec 26, 4:33 pm, enigma wrote:
ncstockguy wrote
oups.com:

Anyone know of a way to rid these gardening related
newsgroups from that obviously confused M15 British
spammer? A real pest.

he posts to pretty much every group his current provider
carries & has been doing so since at least 1993. he posts, he
gets his account yanked for spamming, he's quiet for a bit
until he finds a new provider, wash, rinse, repeat, ad
nauseum.
short answer is just report him to his provider & hope it's
not one that doesn't give a damn about spammers. if you do
report him, abuse needs full headers, full text & when & where
you saw the posts (IOW, if you see it on 15 groups, say which
ones, but you only need the headers & text from one).
meanwhile, you're 2 weeks late bitching, as he lost his last
provider about 10 days ago.
lee also getting a real newsreader instead of using Google
helps cut the visible spam immensely

getting rid of a newsgroup spammer
 

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ncstockguy wrote:

also getting a real newsreader instead of using Google
helps cut the visible spam immensely
-- Can you suggest one? Thanks.

http://www.newsreaders.info/

--
Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA
"Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound
or outward circumference of Energy.
Energy is Eternal Delight"
William Blake

getting rid of a newsgroup spammer
 

ncstockguy wrote in

oups.com:

also getting a real newsreader instead of using Google
helps cut the visible spam immensely
-- Can you suggest one? Thanks.

OE has rudimentary filtering. for a free downloadable
newsreader, i like xNews (i've been using it for over 10
years). Free Agent is the trial version of Agent, which loads
of people like. i'm not one of them :)
do you know if your ISP carries newsgroups? if they gave you
info on a NNTP server they do. if not, there are several
servers you can subscribe to, some have minimal annual fees &
there are a couple that are still free.
really, pretty much anything is better than trying to read
usenet through Google!
lee

getting rid of a newsgroup spammer
 

enigma said:

ncstockguy wrote in

oups.com:

also getting a real newsreader instead of using Google
helps cut the visible spam immensely
-- Can you suggest one? Thanks.

OE has rudimentary filtering.

That's being polite. =)

for a free downloadable
newsreader, i like xNews (i've been using it for over 10
years).

There's a *much* newer version out, than the one you're using. =) (Ignore
the "Test" in the file name, Luu has a weird way of naming files. It's only
the exe in the "Test" version.)

Free Agent is the trial version of Agent, which loads
of people like. i'm not one of them :)

Incomplete filtering with even the paid version of Agent. Don't bother.
It's either Xnews or Dialog, for Windows. Nothing else even comes close to
their filtering capabilities.

do you know if your ISP carries newsgroups? if they gave you
info on a NNTP server they do. if not, there are several
servers you can subscribe to, some have minimal annual fees &
there are a couple that are still free.
really, pretty much anything is better than trying to read
usenet through Google!

Which is a good reason to filter G2 right down the tube. =)

--

Eggs

A computer scientist is someone who, when told to 'Go to Hell', sees the
'go to', rather than the destination, as harmful.

getting rid of a newsgroup spammer
 

ncstockguy wrote:
also getting a real newsreader instead of using Google
helps cut the visible spam immensely
-- Can you suggest one? Thanks.



I use Moz Thunderbird for my email and NG usage. It's got a good filter
system for taking care of such things.

I've got set up to mark the thread read, and to
ignore it. Most likely no need to mark it read first but oh well.

Been SO long since I'd seen any posts I had to check my filter to see if
I was indeed filtering them.

Really a dream.. Plus love having all my email, news groups and RSS
subscriptions in one place.

Hell of alot more secure than OE, too. POS that it is.