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

"Judith Lea" wrote in message
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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

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

In message , Judith Lea
writes
Could anyone tell me how to stop newsgroup spam - I have reported it to
Demon but nothing seems to be happening -

Demon, or any other ISP, will only really be interested if it's from
their customer/s, although some ISPs offer a "cleaner" feed than others.

is there anything I can do
this end?

If you mean the stuff like:

---x---
No carrots will be wet rude butchers.

Just living behind a diet outside the moon is too quiet for Elisa to
burn it. No cheap barbers throughout the noisy station were combing at
the weak shower. Edwin! You'll believe eggs. Just now, I'll pull the
yogi.

She'd rather change cruelly than play with Aloysius's easy cloud.
---x---

the first load that I saw all had the header

X-Complaints-To:

so I just killed on that. Some might consider this a bit too broad-brush
an approach, but I don't really mind. I doubt there are very many
serious contributors here from Korea, and if there are I can always
refetch them later. It's only usenet, after all...

If you mean the stuff cross-posted to:

Newsgroups: demon.local, alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,
talk.politics.animals, uk.environment.conservation, uk.rec.birdwatching,
scot.birds, uk.rec.gardening, uk.business.agriculture,
uk.rec.fishing.coarse, sci.agriculture.poultry

you could try killing anything that's cross-posted to more than, say, 3
groups. Decide for yourself if that would be OTT. I suspect not.

I also find anything (cross)posted to alt.talk.******** to be pretty
much what I'd expect from that group, and not worth seeing.

--
Ian Cummings

"Judith Lea" wrote in message
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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?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07...pammer_killed/

Bob

"Judith Lea" wrote in message
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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

Get Mark to read most of it :~))
Jenny