Re: get rid of ads

<dtms69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Whatever happened to misc.health.diabetes? In the nineties it was a
wonderful group. Filled with information and support and interesting
debates. Now there are dozens of ads for every nugget of real
information on diabetes. Can't someone clean up the ads. I do not
think it is worth the trouble to keep scrolling through garbage to
read the really good stuff from people on this group who have been
here for years and know what they are talking about. It would be best
to disband it and start anew under another name. Perhaps it would
take a while for the rude jerks to set up their unwanted continuous
posts.

D

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The best I can tell, the very active spammer responsible for most of
the spam during the last few days has been stopped. More difficult
than usual, because he/she/it had found a way to lie about where the
spam was posted from, and had several accounts set up before
starting to post the spam.

I've seen another way suggested to block most of the other spam -
tell your newsreader to discard EVERYTHING posted through
Google Groups, since that's where most spammers do their posting.
However, many of the common newsreader programs, apparantly
including all those from Microsoft, fail to offer any way to do this.

As for changing the newsgroup name, don't expect all of the many
newsgroups servers around the world to follow this change fast
enough to move most of the discussions there before many of the
spammers notice the change and decide to post spam to both the
old newsgroup and the new one. Converting it to a moderated
newsgroup, though, which usually requires adding ".moderated"
to the name, should filter out all spammers who haven't learned
how to fake a moderator's approval; but it will also allow frequently
hours of waiting for the moderator(s) to approve your message
before amyone other than the moderator can read it.

If you're willing to have someone else strip out the spam, some
newsgroups providers already do this. A cheap and reliable one
of these is:

http://www.news.individual.net/

Does require you to switch to reaching this newsgroup through
a newsreader program instead of the browser/Google Groups
combination you're using now, though.

Robert Miles


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