• ANY ADMINISTRATOR AROUND ?

    From carlos feldman@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 3 12:44:19 2021
    Hi !

    Since some months, the group is flooded with very aggresive spam in italian language,

    Can some administrator moderate the publications ?

    Thanks

    Carlos

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  • From Peter Flass@21:1/5 to carlos feldman on Mon May 3 18:38:33 2021
    carlos feldman <carlfelster@gmail.com> wrote:
    Hi !

    Since some months, the group is flooded with very aggresive spam in italian language,

    Can some administrator moderate the publications ?

    Thanks

    Carlos


    Unfortunately, this is Usenet. There is no administrator. I’d be happy if I could filter it.

    --
    Pete

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  • From Robin Vowels@21:1/5 to carlf...@gmail.com on Mon May 3 19:49:51 2021
    On Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 5:44:20 AM UTC+10, carlf...@gmail.com wrote:
    Hi !

    Since some months, the group is flooded with very aggresive spam in italian language,

    Can some administrator moderate the publications ?

    If you are using googlegroups, you can mark it as abuse,
    and the posting will not show again, though there will still
    a one-line entry to say that you deleted it.
    If enough people do that, maybe even that line will disappear
    completely.

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  • From Richard L. Hamilton@21:1/5 to Peter Flass on Mon May 10 09:16:04 2021
    In article <930058295.641784178.559264.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>,
    Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
    carlos feldman <carlfelster@gmail.com> wrote:
    Hi !

    Since some months, the group is flooded with very aggresive spam in italian language,

    Can some administrator moderate the publications ?

    Thanks

    Carlos


    Unfortunately, this is Usenet. There is no administrator. I’d be happy if I could filter it.


    Dedicated Usenet reader programs would let you establish a "killfile" based
    on matches to sending user or subject (at least); that can help.

    Moderated newsgroups are possible, but this isn't one; and I think that requires approving every post that looks legitimate, which is very labor intensive and usually slow, given that nobody is paid to do it.

    A particular news server administrator could set their own policies on
    what to cancel, but that would only help clients connecting to that site
    (or other sites fed by that site, perhaps).

    There is no good general solution to spam on Usenet, except using a
    newsreader that's capable of helping you out.

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  • From Peter Flass@21:1/5 to Richard L. Hamilton on Tue May 11 11:35:52 2021
    Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil@smart.net> wrote:
    In article <930058295.641784178.559264.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>,
    Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
    carlos feldman <carlfelster@gmail.com> wrote:
    Hi !

    Since some months, the group is flooded with very aggresive spam in italian language,

    Can some administrator moderate the publications ?

    Thanks

    Carlos


    Unfortunately, this is Usenet. There is no administrator. I’d be happy if I
    could filter it.


    Dedicated Usenet reader programs would let you establish a "killfile" based on matches to sending user or subject (at least); that can help.

    Moderated newsgroups are possible, but this isn't one; and I think that requires approving every post that looks legitimate, which is very labor intensive and usually slow, given that nobody is paid to do it.

    A particular news server administrator could set their own policies on
    what to cancel, but that would only help clients connecting to that site
    (or other sites fed by that site, perhaps).

    There is no good general solution to spam on Usenet, except using a newsreader that's capable of helping you out.


    I can’t even figure out a good way to filter email, except setting up a whitelist. The spammers change email addresses for every email, and there’s no pattern to the “sender” or the subject fields. It’s sad, though, that those thousands of beautiful Asian women will never get to date me.
    (actually, I guess I could block these, maybe I’ll do it next time I get
    one)

    --
    Pete

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  • From Robin Vowels@21:1/5 to bearlyabus...@gmail.com on Wed May 12 06:04:26 2021
    On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 4:35:53 AM UTC+10, bearlyabus...@gmail.com wrote:
    Richard L. Hamilton <rlh...@smart.net> wrote:
    In article <930058295.641784178.5592...@news.eternal-september.org>,

    There is no good general solution to spam on Usenet, except using a newsreader that's capable of helping you out.

    I can’t even figure out a good way to filter email, except setting up a whitelist. The spammers change email addresses for every email, and there’s
    no pattern to the “sender” or the subject fields. It’s sad, though, that
    those thousands of beautiful Asian women will never get to date me. (actually, I guess I could block these, maybe I’ll do it next time I get one)
    .
    In general yes, but these posts are of the same theme.

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  • From Robin Vowels@21:1/5 to bearlyabus...@gmail.com on Mon Jun 28 18:56:45 2021
    On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 4:35:53 AM UTC+10, bearlyabus...@gmail.com wrote:

    I can’t even figure out a good way to filter email, except setting up a whitelist. The spammers change email addresses for every email, and there’s
    no pattern to the “sender” or the subject fields. It’s sad, though, that
    those thousands of beautiful Asian women will never get to date me. (actually, I guess I could block these, maybe I’ll do it next time I get one)
    .
    If you are using googlegroups, what you can do is to open the noxious
    post and mark it as spam (there's a tiny icon near the top of the page).
    Then, any more posts in the same thread will be automatically suppressed (including future posts).

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