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    From Jay Cotton@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 8 09:54:06 2022
    Like the one from feb 11

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  • From Bill Gunshannon@21:1/5 to Jay Cotton on Tue Mar 8 13:07:04 2022
    On 3/8/22 12:54, Jay Cotton wrote:
    Like the one from feb 11

    Find a better news feed. Whatever you didn't like on Feb 11
    I didn't even see and wouldn't even know about if you didn't
    complain.


    bill

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  • From Jay Cotton@21:1/5 to Bill Gunshannon on Tue Mar 8 14:58:08 2022
    On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 10:07:07 AM UTC-8, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
    On 3/8/22 12:54, Jay Cotton wrote:
    Like the one from feb 11
    Find a better news feed. Whatever you didn't like on Feb 11
    I didn't even see and wouldn't even know about if you didn't
    complain.


    bill
    Hi Bill:

    I am getting my access via google groups. Is that how you reach this list ?

    tnx
    jc

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to lbmgmusic@gmail.com on Tue Mar 8 23:36:23 2022
    Jay Cotton <lbmgmusic@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 10:07:07 AM UTC-8, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
    On 3/8/22 12:54, Jay Cotton wrote:
    Like the one from feb 11
    Find a better news feed. Whatever you didn't like on Feb 11
    I didn't even see and wouldn't even know about if you didn't
    complain.

    I am getting my access via google groups. Is that how you reach this list ?

    This is not a list, this is a Usenet Newsgroup.

    Google Groups is a cheesy and incompetently-managed interface to Usenet.
    It is run without any intervention, so it has attracted a large number of spammers. Pretty much all the spam on Usenet originates from Google, and
    most sites downstream from Google filter it out. Many sites just dump all traffic from Google completely because the ratio of legitimate postings to trash is so high.

    Get yourself an account on a normal Usenet server and get a newsreader
    to read it with. If your ISP does not have Usenet service, as many no
    longer do, there are third-party providers like eternal-september which
    are competently run and don't allow spammers to abuse their service
    the way Google does. Many of them (including eternal-september) offer
    a web service as well as normal NNTP service for newsreaders, if you
    prefer that.

    There is nobody at the helm of Google Groups, so there is nobody to complain
    to about the spam. Letters to Sundar Pichai go unanswered. I doubt he even knows Usenet exists. All anyone can do is just block postings from Google users.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From Bill Gunshannon@21:1/5 to Jay Cotton on Tue Mar 8 18:27:53 2022
    On 3/8/22 17:58, Jay Cotton wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 10:07:07 AM UTC-8, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
    On 3/8/22 12:54, Jay Cotton wrote:
    Like the one from feb 11
    Find a better news feed. Whatever you didn't like on Feb 11
    I didn't even see and wouldn't even know about if you didn't
    complain.


    bill
    Hi Bill:

    I am getting my access via google groups. Is that how you reach this list ?


    Google Groups has got to be the worst way to do USENET. Probably the
    biggest contributor to the impending death of USENET. :-(

    I use news.individual.net. Costs a whopping 10 Euros a year for
    a very clean and usable feed without most of the cruft. Easily
    read with Thunderbird on Linux or Windows. I have also used
    Knews in the past.

    bill

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  • From Hans Bachner@21:1/5 to Bill Gunshannon on Fri Mar 11 11:48:06 2022
    Bill Gunshannon schrieb am 09.03.2022 um 00:27:
    On 3/8/22 17:58, Jay Cotton wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 10:07:07 AM UTC-8, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
    On 3/8/22 12:54, Jay Cotton wrote:
    Like the one from feb 11
    Find a better news feed. Whatever you didn't like on Feb 11
    I didn't even see and wouldn't even know about if you didn't
    complain.


    bill
    [...]

    Google Groups has got to be the worst way to do USENET.  Probably the biggest contributor to the impending death of USENET.  :-(

    I use news.individual.net.  Costs a whopping 10 Euros a year for
    a very clean and usable feed without most of the cruft.  Easily
    read with Thunderbird on Linux or Windows.  I have also used
    Knews in the past.

    I also use news.individual.net and *do* see the post Jay is complaining
    about. I also use Thunderbird as a reader.

    Hans.

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  • From KP2 KP2@21:1/5 to Hans Bachner on Sat Jul 15 08:51:13 2023
    On Friday, March 11, 2022 at 2:48:06 AM UTC-8, Hans Bachner wrote:
    Bill Gunshannon schrieb am 09.03.2022 um 00:27:
    On 3/8/22 17:58, Jay Cotton wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 10:07:07 AM UTC-8, Bill Gunshannon wrote: >>> On 3/8/22 12:54, Jay Cotton wrote:
    Like the one from feb 11
    Find a better news feed. Whatever you didn't like on Feb 11
    I didn't even see and wouldn't even know about if you didn't
    complain.


    bill
    [...]

    Google Groups has got to be the worst way to do USENET. Probably the biggest contributor to the impending death of USENET. :-(

    I use news.individual.net. Costs a whopping 10 Euros a year for
    a very clean and usable feed without most of the cruft. Easily
    read with Thunderbird on Linux or Windows. I have also used
    Knews in the past.
    I also use news.individual.net and *do* see the post Jay is complaining about. I also use Thunderbird as a reader.

    Hans.
    Google Groups is the worst. So much garbage now.

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  • From nobody in particular@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 1 21:14:25 2024
    On 15/07/2023 15:51, KP2 KP2 wrote:
    On Friday, March 11, 2022 at 2:48:06 AM UTC-8, Hans Bachner wrote:
    Bill Gunshannon schrieb am 09.03.2022 um 00:27:
    On 3/8/22 17:58, Jay Cotton wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 10:07:07 AM UTC-8, Bill Gunshannon wrote: >>>>> On 3/8/22 12:54, Jay Cotton wrote:
    Like the one from feb 11
    Find a better news feed. Whatever you didn't like on Feb 11
    I didn't even see and wouldn't even know about if you didn't
    complain.


    bill
    [...]

    Google Groups has got to be the worst way to do USENET. Probably the
    biggest contributor to the impending death of USENET. :-(

    I use news.individual.net. Costs a whopping 10 Euros a year for
    a very clean and usable feed without most of the cruft. Easily
    read with Thunderbird on Linux or Windows. I have also used
    Knews in the past.
    I also use news.individual.net and *do* see the post Jay is complaining
    about. I also use Thunderbird as a reader.

    Hans.
    Google Groups is the worst. So much garbage now.

    I use Thunderbird and I create a rule delete everything with
    googlegroups.com in the Message-ID header.

    It's unfortunate, but I don't see a way to create a global filter in Thunderbird. Until now I have to create the same filter for every newsgroup.

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to nobody@devnull.org on Thu May 2 19:22:24 2024
    nobody in particular <nobody@devnull.org> wrote:
    I use Thunderbird and I create a rule delete everything with
    googlegroups.com in the Message-ID header.

    It's a bit late for that now, isn't it?
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From Dennis Boone@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 3 18:50:38 2024
    It's a bit late for that now, isn't it?

    The posts are still there. And your newsreader will pull down
    the list of them, at least as far back as it pulls. (Tin defaults
    to some limited number of posts. I flip it to all in spite of the
    time hit, because I inevitably end up wanting to see older stuff
    in threads or search back posts or something.)

    De

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