It's beginning to look like the group needs a filter system!

"Al Patrick" wrote in message
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It's beginning to look like the group needs a filter system!

I took the advice of others on another group and set a filter to delete any
posts from gmail.com

This cleaned up most of it.

In article F4adnTvISJY6YY_VnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@internetofbeaufo rtcounty, Al Patrick wrote:
It's beginning to look like the group needs a filter system!

No, it looks like *you* need a filter system on your newsreader.

http://www.nfilter.org


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Your'e the one who needs filters. C'mon..
I have 30+ filters currently with Agent. The kill ratio on RCM is
about 45%
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:57:52 -0400, Al Patrick wrote:

It's beginning to look like the group needs a filter system!
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Al Patrick wrote:
It's beginning to look like the group needs a filter system!

One of my old email addresses is being used as spam "sender" address.
Most of the same crap as in the group, watches, shoes etc., the worst
part at the moment is the hundreds of bounce messages coming back
to my current box (old one is forwarded...).

Can't think of a way to stop the perhaps hundreds of robo
machines from impersonating me... ?? /mark

Me too, works great!


"Den" wrote in message
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"Al Patrick" wrote in message
news:F4adnTvISJY6YY_VnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@internetofbe aufortcounty...
It's beginning to look like the group needs a filter system!

I took the advice of others on another group and set a filter to delete
any posts from gmail.com

This cleaned up most of it.

"JR North" wrote in message
...
Your'e the one who needs filters. C'mon..
I have 30+ filters currently with Agent. The kill ratio on RCM is
about 45%
JR
Dweller in the cellar


I keep adding keywords from the subject line, plus people in the from line.
Still get stuff, but a LOT has been eliminated, and when I hit anything that
I know isn't RCM, I just use that little arrow.

Steve

On 2008-04-26, Al Patrick wrote:
It's beginning to look like the group needs a filter system!

And where are you going to apply this filter? Usenet is hosted
by thousands of systems around the world, and unless *all* of them
implement your filters, it won't do any good.

It is not like a web based forum, where there is a single point
at which the filter will work on all articles. :-) (Granted, it may
*look* like a web-based forum if you are accessing it through one of the
web-to-usenet gateways, of which "Google Groups" is probably the largest
example -- and the source of the most spam.

Better to run a more powerful newsreader, and set up filters of
your own -- eliminating what you find offensive or irritating.

I do just that (using slrn as a newsreader) and when I got into
the newsgroup, the number of articles drops from 328 or so at the start
to around 95 or so once the killfile and scoring have done their thing.

And you might make a big start on the offensive articles by
filtering out anything which comes from Google. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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