Re: What to do about all the game money advertisements?

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:51:29 +0200, Flo 'Irian' Schaetz wrote:

Ask you news server administrator :-) As I don't play RuneScape, WoW or
any other of these games, I can simply filter by these keywords..

They are using Google Groups to post the spam, and I doubt that Google
cares. I also filter out all posts and threads with "gold", "runescape",
"maple" and "wow" in the subject. That works reasonably well.

M.
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