TonyS wrote:
Is there anything that can be done about it?

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
4. Tell Google that they've switched from "Do no evil"
to being the source of much evil.
They need to do some enforcement, but that's difficult
since usenet news does not generate any advertising revenue.

Actually, Google Groups includes in their pagefeeds
an iframe called http://groups.google.com/groups/adfetch?...
(unless you block that, as I do).

5. Do your own filtering. I use nfilter:

....and Platt has already mentioned Leafnode.

In the parallel thread,

Webb mentioned the concept
but didn't mention the software he uses (Hamster ).
This has all been discussed numerous times:
http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...url:www&num=50

Google's listing of this genre omits nFilter/NewsProxy. 8-(
http://google.com/search?q=cache:1rB...U+us+Win9x-*-*