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On 2012-08-02, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Mike Barnes wrote:
How do you filter such garbage in less than 5 minutes? (Just asking
for OP) :-)


I pay someone the remarkably reasonable sum of EUR 10 a year to do it
for me.


http://www.individual.net/


trainers? Rolex? Viagra? Religious fanaticism? I don't see any of it.


Very little here either using a free provider.


I wonder how much spam there is on Usenet these days.


Still quite a bit in some groups.

Is it worth the spammers while any more given the withering away of text
Usenet,


Since it costs them nothing to spam, presumably.

the reduction in the number of servers, most of whom are
commercial and operate a vigorous anti-spam policy?


Plenty don’t.