Is it just me or has the spam volume increased dramatically? As one of
those northeastern libtards, I'm adamantly opposed to the death
penalty but I'm willing to make an exception for these fscks...

Jeff

"Jeff" wrote in message
...
Is it just me or has the spam volume increased dramatically? As one of
those northeastern libtards, I'm adamantly opposed to the death
penalty but I'm willing to make an exception for these fscks...

Jeff

Dam those Monty Python Characters.

Maxwell Lol wrote:
Jeff writes:

Is it just me or has the spam volume increased dramatically? As one of
those northeastern libtards, I'm adamantly opposed to the death
penalty but I'm willing to make an exception for these fscks...

I THINK so, but I don't notice because of my killfiles.
Time to ditch googlegroups.

Yesterday I was recommending Supernews for their spam filtering, but I
just learned that they were bought out, and that the new owners are
not keeping any of the old workers. So purchasing a SuperNews account
is not recommended right now.





That's why I go with motzarella, hardly any spam. Now, if only people
who b*tch about it, wouldn't, it would be even greater.

Maxwell Lol wrote in
:

Jeff writes:

Is it just me or has the spam volume increased dramatically? As one of
those northeastern libtards, I'm adamantly opposed to the death
penalty but I'm willing to make an exception for these fscks...

I THINK so, but I don't notice because of my killfiles.
Time to ditch googlegroups.

Yesterday I was recommending Supernews for their spam filtering, but I
just learned that they were bought out, and that the new owners are
not keeping any of the old workers. So purchasing a SuperNews account
is not recommended right now.





After switching to a provider that doesn't do much filtering, I've come
up with some filters of my own (Note that these are regular expressions:
Subject: nude
Subject: nike
From:
Subject: sex
Subject: lesbian
Subject: work from home
Subject: work home
From:
From:
From:
From:

They're not 100% effective, but they do reduce quite a bit of the spam.

Puckdropper
--
You can only do so much with caulk, cardboard, and duct tape.

To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm

On Mar 18, 12:35 pm, Jeff wrote:
Is it just me or has the spam volume increased dramatically? As one of
those northeastern libtards, I'm adamantly opposed to the death
penalty but I'm willing to make an exception for these fscks...

Jeff

I have to get an expert on my machine so I can get the rec on
something other than Google, at least until Google starts offering
some kind of filtering. I'm tired of all these people having to worry
about my watches, Gucci clothing, penis size and such.

What I am curious about is why they pay someone to spam newsgroups so
heavily. I doubt it's possible they get enough responses to make the
outlay worthwhile, even as cheap as it is.

I'm also curious as to why Google hasn't set up some kind of filter
system, even if optional and something you had to pay a buck or six
for each month. Rather than futz around with newsreaders elsewhere, I
think a bunch of people would jump on that, and I'd probably spring
first or damned close to it.

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:16:38 -0700 (PDT), Charlie Self
wrote:

What I am curious about is why they pay someone to spam newsgroups so
heavily. I doubt it's possible they get enough responses to make the
outlay worthwhile, even as cheap as it is.

Works on a referral per click, but a fraction of a penny per click.
Someone in India, or a third world country could be the difference of
having food or not.

If the UPD would be used maybe it could be cleaned up, though it would
have to be run through the committee of all committees.

Mark

In article 180320081805529263%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone. ca,
Dave Balderstone wrote:
In article , Maxwell Lol
wrote:

Jeff writes:

Is it just me or has the spam volume increased dramatically? As one of
those northeastern libtards, I'm adamantly opposed to the death
penalty but I'm willing to make an exception for these fscks...

I THINK so, but I don't notice because of my killfiles.
Time to ditch googlegroups.

Yesterday I was recommending Supernews for their spam filtering, but I
just learned that they were bought out, and that the new owners are
not keeping any of the old workers. So purchasing a SuperNews account
is not recommended right now.

Supernews is being split. Giganews is taking the commercial side, and a
new company (Supernews, Inc) is handling the consumer/personal
accounts.

Supernews, Inc. is a newly formed subsidiary of Giganews. Same buyer for
everything.


I can't find any reference to staff being let go. Can you provide a
cite for that?

I can confirm (mostly). Virtually all of the supernews support people
have posted in one of the supernews support groups that they are _not_
transferring to the new company. A number have said explicitly that they
will not be working for the old owner after the ownership change, either.

there is, I believe, _one_ staffer 'not heard from, at all', and maybe
two more that haven't made it clear whether they'll remain with Critical
Path after the sale. Based on what _has_ been said, I would expect that
none of them will be at Critical Path after the sale, nor will they be
at Giganews.

Giganews _is_ acquiring the filter technology that Supernews had -- that
does go with the sale. Unclear whether they will (a) continue it at all,
(b) let it continue to run, but strictly on auto-pilot, or (c) keep it
current/updated like the old Supernews did.

/me is _really_ unhappy about the upcoming changes.