"John Rumm" wrote in message
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mick wrote:
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:32:15 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

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Seems like Virginmedia don't do much filtering then!

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. :-)
And about 10% of the useful stuff as well I expect.


I don't think the figure is that high! I've been filtering everything
from googlegroups for ages and, AFAICT, I've not missed much of any
importance. Maybe just the occasional poster.

BW is filtering GMail and yahoo email addresses as well GG by the sounds
of it. That's a fair chunk of users.

Cheers,

John.


The domain name filtering seems to work really well. In fact, I don't think
I'm missing any of the real posts to the group at all. It seems to be the
free domain names that the spammers use and throw away that are carrying all
the rubbish.

If I do miss one or two original postings, then I can always pick them up in
the replies. :-)