• Is there any way ?

    From Matt@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 29 16:27:05 2023
    Is there any way to filter out all this Arabic garbage that has flooded this group?

    TIA!

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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to Matt on Wed Nov 29 16:56:49 2023
    Matt wrote:

    Is there any way to filter out all this Arabic garbage that has flooded
    this group?

    Yes... use a filter that blocks message ID containing <@groups.google.com>

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  • From Matt@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Wed Nov 29 17:57:28 2023
    On 29 Nov 2023 at 17:56:49 CET, ""Blueshirt"" <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

    Matt wrote:

    Is there any way to filter out all this Arabic garbage that has flooded
    this group?

    Yes... use a filter that blocks message ID containing <@groups.google.com>

    Thanks Blueshift!

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  • From geoff@21:1/5 to Matt on Thu Nov 30 08:55:33 2023
    On 30/11/2023 5:27 am, Matt wrote:
    Is there any way to filter out all this Arabic garbage that has flooded this group?

    TIA!

    It's not Arabic. I believe it is Thai.

    Filter post from Google Groups.

    geoff

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  • From Nil@21:1/5 to Matt on Thu Nov 30 20:42:53 2023
    On 29 Nov 2023, Matt <matt@myemail.invalid> wrote in
    rec.music.beatles:

    On 29 Nov 2023 at 17:56:49 CET, ""Blueshirt""
    <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

    Matt wrote:

    Is there any way to filter out all this Arabic garbage that has
    flooded this group?

    Yes... use a filter that blocks message ID containing
    <@groups.google.com>

    Thanks Blueshift!

    This group has (or had in past days) many participants who used Google
    Groups. If you blunt-force filter out Google people you might find you
    have also eliminated some names you expect to see. If so, you will need
    to "whitelist" the good guys that you know.

    I don't see any of this spam. I don't have any local filters to kill
    that stuff, so I assume it's been done for me by my News service (eternal-september) admin.

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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to Nil on Fri Dec 1 19:46:41 2023
    Nil wrote:

    This group has (or had in past days) many participants who used Google Groups. If you blunt-force filter out Google people you might find you
    have also eliminated some names you expect to see. If so, you will need
    to "whitelist" the good guys that you know.

    I call it collateral damage... but yes, in theory you should whitelist the
    good guys that post from G2... although in my experience they are few and
    far between. (It does depend on the newsgroup though.)

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  • From pamina58@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 4 04:38:31 2023
    Use novabbs.com It filters out the spam

    https://www.novabbs.com/arts/thread.php?group=rec.music.beatles

    Pamela

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  • From Nil@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Mon Dec 4 15:10:40 2023
    On 01 Dec 2023, "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote in
    rec.music.beatles:

    Nil wrote:

    This group has (or had in past days) many participants who used
    Google Groups. If you blunt-force filter out Google people you
    might find you have also eliminated some names you expect to see.
    If so, you will need to "whitelist" the good guys that you know.

    I call it collateral damage... but yes, in theory you should
    whitelist the good guys that post from G2... although in my
    experience they are few and far between. (It does depend on the
    newsgroup though.)

    This newsgroup has many Googlers. For example, in the past month, about
    67 out of 95 posts come from Googlers, and they represent about 12 of
    the most prolific posters. This is true of most of the non-technical
    groups, like the music- and fan-related ones I read. If you blanket-
    killfile all the Googlers here, there would be hardly anything left.
    And, of course, if you use Google Groups, you have no ability to filter anything anyway, so you're subjected to the junk your own Usenet host
    allows. The best solution would be to use a better news service and a
    "real" newsreader with filtering/killfile features. Unfortunately,
    that's too technical or too much bother for a lot of people.

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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to Nil on Fri Dec 15 17:09:02 2023
    Nil wrote:

    On 01 Dec 2023, "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote in rec.music.beatles:

    Nil wrote:

    This group has (or had in past days) many participants who used
    Google Groups. If you blunt-force filter out Google people you
    might find you have also eliminated some names you expect to see.
    If so, you will need to "whitelist" the good guys that you know.

    I call it collateral damage... but yes, in theory you should
    whitelist the good guys that post from G2... although in my
    experience they are few and far between. (It does depend on the
    newsgroup though.)

    This newsgroup has many Googlers. For example, in the past month, about
    67 out of 95 posts come from Googlers, and they represent about 12 of
    the most prolific posters.

    Looks like they will need a newsreader and a NNTP service from next
    February!!!

    Goodbye Google Groups spam... and good riddance.

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