BigWallop wrote:

I reset the groups to get them more up to date after my longish
absence, and a lot of posts from advertisers and the BNP pushers were
all over the place.

My quick fix, is to block all senders (from addresses) that have YAHOO,
Google or GMail in them. That actually gets rid of 98% of the little
buggers, would you believe. :-)


Welcome back. The only problem is that you let your guard drop, while
the regulars have kept their filters up and don't see any problem at
all.

I don't find it necessary to block any messages by ISP, only by header
and other properties such as excessive length and cross-posting.

The only recurring problem is caused by a few regulars in this group who
get involved in some heavily cross-posted off-topic dogfight... and then
trim their replies to uk.d-i-y alone. Please don't!



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Ian White