On 7/29/2016 11:02 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 11:24:51 PM UTC-4, Muggles wrote:
On 7/29/2016 9:08 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 20:05:09 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote:

| I wish there were a way to block this homeownershub
| spam. I wonder how many of the posters are even real.
| In any case, it keeps getting worse. I've taken to just
| ignoring all original posts I see that start with , assuming
| them to be either homeownershub or originating from a
| poster who I've blocked.
|
| Can your reader filter on the body? I notice they often have the URL as
| a sig.

That's what I was thinking, but for some reason
I can't filter newsgroups in the ways that I can
filter email.


Add this to your filters
(no quotes)
"caedfaa9ed1216d60ef78a6f660f5f85"

That gets rid of all of them from Homeowners Hub.
Unfortunately people keep replying to them, so we end up seeing the
replies anyhow.... I dont reply to them, if I know they are from the "H
Hub".

The way I see it, this newsgroup as well as all of usenet is about dead.
There is little worth reading on here anymore. I'm now deleting 95% of
the posts on here, (either with filters or manually). It's not worth my
time anymore coming on here.

And since I find the web has been taken over by facebook, I'm wasting my
money paying for internet service. I cant even use Craigslist anymore
since they put on those captcha things, which require a fast internet
connection and all sorts of flash crap. I already decided that at the
end of August, I'm canceling my internet service. The only reason I am
keeping it another month is for email. By that time, I'll get a newer
cellphone so I can do my email on the phone. (My old phone cant do it).

I saw the end of usenet coming over a year ago. But did not expect the
web to also die, which it has. From the early 90's till now, the
internet was a great and useful tool, but it's gone the same way as the
CB radio died in the early 80s. The internet was bound to fail, and it's
happened. All it is now is a place for mindless morons to chatter their
mindless bull**** on facebook, or troll usenet. The net no longer serves
any real purpose.

I wish there was a way to just get email on a computer without having a
full internet service, but I guess the only way is on a cellphone now.
That's ok, but I find it real hard to type on a phone. But I'll learn to
live with it, and just make my emails short, and spend more time calling
people instead. Heck, I might even go back to getting the newspaper and
mailing real letters to friends and relatives.



The internet and Usenet isn't dead - it's just changing. If you get
email on your smart phone, you'll need the internet to get email.
You'll still be able to access Usenet via your phone, and anything on
the internet on your phone.



How does one not know that the internet is required for email to happen?

Wait until they tell him that he has to pay for data in order to get email. That might be fun to
listen in on.

P: I have to pay for data? What data? I just want email.
C: Yes sir, I know, but email requires that data be sent to your phone.
P: How does it get to my phone?
C: Either wirelessly from an internet router or from the cell tower.
P: Well, the internet is dead, so I only want the data from the cell tower.
C: Sir, you do know that the data travels on the internet before it gets to the tower, right?
P: That can't be right. The internet is dead. Just sent my email from the tower and we'll be all set.


I remember my first pc. I didn't know anything about them and thought
the keyboard had something to do with being the C drive! ;-)

--
Maggie