Re: ASD



"Robert Miles" <robertmiles@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:nBTOm.286$y%5.64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Anon" <anonnospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3-2dnRKBw-iO2pbWnZ2dnUVZ_rmdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Is it time to stick a fork in ASD?

The spam seems to have taken over, not much diabetes being talked here anymore. It is a shame, many have benefited from advice and information presented here.

Anon

I've found that it now needs very heavy post filtering (more than the
Windows Mail email/newsreader program I use allows), but still seems
useful otherwise.

I'd like to be able to delete all posts with any of the following:

1. @126.com in the return address, received from any of the
newsgroups accounts I now use.

2. @163.com in the return address, received from any of the
newsgroups accounts I now use.

3. @sina.com in the return address, received from any of the
newsgroups accounts I now use.

4. Anything crossposted between alt.support.diabetes and
sci.med.cardiology or alt.christnet.christianlife, since nearly all
such posts contain nothing useful about diabetes.

5. Anything that even mentions certain web sites often mentioned
in spam, or any web page at those sites, especially spam trying
to sell shoes of some kind.

In addition, I'd like to apply heavier filtering to anything posted
through Google Groups, mainly to hide it until I decide whether
I'm interested in reading anything with that return address but
not to delete it completely, since most of the newsgroups spam I
see is posted through Google Groups, which doesn't do much
to block the same spammers from creating more free accounts
and using them to post another batch of spam.

I'd also like to be able to apply heavier filtering to anything
with the username in any character set that contains enough
characters used in English to post a username typical for
English, but not normally used for English, and anything posted
in other than a text-only mode (HTML, for example) but in
a newsgroup that expects text-only.

I'm looking into newsgroup readers that can fully import my
Windows Mail database, which includes hundreds of thousands
of unread posts, tens of thousands of posts that were read and
then saved, and over 1500 rules for deciding what to discard
without reading it. My first attempt to try it with Windows Live
Mail on this machine failed after importing about half the database;
I'm now interested in uninstalling Windows Live Mail, then
reinstalling it and reimporting the Windows Mail database, in order
to check if having no Windows Mail storage folders with about
149,000 posts is enough to make the install give me a version of
Windows Live Mail that makes the filtering options accessible and
has imported all the changes to the Windows Mail database since
the first attempt.

Robert Miles



I just filter the spam posts by reading the headers. The problem, lately is that there are so many I might miss an important diabetes post.



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