Re: It seems the spammers have won the war...

In article <DQokm.90429$nL7.4964@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
William Gill <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

dorayme wrote:
In article <7fdag6F2kl88qU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Travis Newbury wrote:
Looks like the spammers are now out numbering the real alt.html
posters. Too bad. A few rotten eggs spoil it for the rest of us.
Eh? In a month's worth of alt.html postings, I see only one ad, one
piece of vandalism, and one message whose contents Thunderbird doesn't
seem to want to display. That's all. I use individual.net for Usenet, FWIW.

I get almost no spam either. Today, for example, there is just this
thread. I do nothing special except have a few filters for any posts
that kept annoying me. The news server must be doing it. I know this is
is not spam, but when I filtered out The Mad Hatter years ago, I noticed
a dramatic drop in posts for alt.html because along with him came a
complete army of wild things...

But there are usenet groups where one needs to filter for GG (letting in
a few selected individuals in), not so much for the spam but for other
"blinkey" type reasons.

GG vary in how they filter themselves, look at alt.html on web and
compare with alt.php on web. The former is impossible (as Travis is
saying), the latter looks clean.

I'm seeing the same thing as Travis, the spam has increased
exponentially lately. You must be right, it must be the news server
falling down on the job. I'm not surprised, the news server my ISP uses
is a disaster. It took me several hours, and many new attempts to reply
to a message because of server timeouts.

I used to use the one that came with my Optus plan, but after a few
breakdowns, some of considerable length (more than a week...), I changed
to albasani...

I cannot see why the Google portal has alt.html clean and alt.php (there
are other examples) spamful? Perhaps it goes on subscriber numbers? If
it is too large, Google give up? alt.html is described as having a high
activity, alt.php as medium.

On the other hand, there is another factor, alt.php has Jerry Stuckle
and Google may be giving it a wide berth like one would with a week long
dead unrefrigerated haddock... <g>

--
dorayme
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