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Advice on how to stop spam
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? -- Judith Lea |
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"Judith Lea" wrote in message ... 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? -- Judith Lea If it is Demon they won't do anything. The spam is not being fed out by one of their clients. They will only attack you as a Demon client if someone makes a complaint against you. They will act against you first, then ask questions. Been there, done that, threatened Solicitor action, got the apology. Mike Who never knowingly tells lies |
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and doesn't use Demon anymore? -- :-)) correct :-)) |
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Sacha wrote:
On 26/7/05 12:30, in article , "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? 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. -- Chris Green |
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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? The short answer is you can't reliably, but if you are prepared to accept a small risk of collateral damage block the zones of the internet that are littered with open mail relays and dozy sysops - notably: *.hk *.kr Ask on d.i.s.turnpike for details of a custom rule to do it. I think Custom rule reject /^X-Trace.*\.kr/h or something like ought to do it NB UNTESTED It will also bin anything posted by legit Hong kong users into u.r.g Try it at your own risk! Regards, Martin Brown |
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On 2005-07-26, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:32:41 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 26/7/05 12:30, in article , "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? 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. Somebody claimed to have filtered the whole lot. I only got one big burst of troll messages. This basically got them all, but I doubt that there are many slrn users he [uk.rec.gardening] Sco =-9999 % Spamming **** Expires: 12/31/2008 % Kill anything with one of these in {:: NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.124.129.* NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.106.21.* X-Complaints-To: Path: .*kornet.net.* } Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) |
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"Sacha" wrote after... "Martin" wrote in reply to Judith Lea 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? 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. http://news.individual.net did a good job, well worth the 10 EUR (few £'s) a year, some spam/crossposted junk appeared for a few hours then disappeared when they caught up. -- Regards Bob In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London |
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Ceri Davies wrote:
Somebody claimed to have filtered the whole lot. I only got one big burst of troll messages. This basically got them all, but I doubt that there are many slrn users he [uk.rec.gardening] Sco =-9999 % Spamming **** Expires: 12/31/2008 % Kill anything with one of these in {:: NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.124.129.* NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.106.21.* X-Complaints-To: Path: .*kornet.net.* } But was it worth the effort of doing even that, the IP addresses will be different next time around (probably) so that's only a one off filter. With slrn (as with tin that I use) it's a matter of only a few seconds to skip past all the junk and then mark it as read. -- Chris Green |
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On 26/7/05 13:41, in article ,
" wrote: Sacha wrote: On 26/7/05 12:30, in article , "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? 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. So what would you recommend Judith to use? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
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On 2005-07-26, wrote:
Ceri Davies wrote: Somebody claimed to have filtered the whole lot. I only got one big burst of troll messages. This basically got them all, but I doubt that there are many slrn users he [uk.rec.gardening] Sco =-9999 % Spamming **** Expires: 12/31/2008 % Kill anything with one of these in {:: NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.124.129.* NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.106.21.* X-Complaints-To: Path: .*kornet.net.* } But was it worth the effort of doing even that, the IP addresses will be different next time around (probably) so that's only a one off filter. Not really; it kills "anything with one of th[o]se in", as per the comment. With slrn (as with tin that I use) it's a matter of only a few seconds to skip past all the junk and then mark it as read. Assuming that the junk comes in blocks. Either way, I have no desire to argue over whether this or that is a good solution. I was simply pointing out that it was trivially possible to get rid of all the crap posts having looked at two of them. Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) |
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from Sacha contains these words: 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. Ahem! I know at least one ISP that does. -- Rusty Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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from contains these words: .... 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. Depends on the newsreader - with an offline one like ours, and using the system of compressed packets, you get the lot. However, the Zetgods are very accommodating when it comes to blocking malicious stuff. -- Rusty Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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from contains these words: But was it worth the effort of doing even that, the IP addresses will be different next time around (probably) so that's only a one off filter. With slrn (as with tin that I use) it's a matter of only a few seconds to skip past all the junk and then mark it as read. Only if you can do it on the server. -- Rusty Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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"Kay" wrote in message ... In article , writes Sacha wrote: On 26/7/05 12:30, in article , "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) |
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