In message , Judith Lea
writes
Could anyone tell me how to stop newsgroup spam - I have reported it to
Demon but nothing seems to be happening -

Demon, or any other ISP, will only really be interested if it's from
their customer/s, although some ISPs offer a "cleaner" feed than others.

is there anything I can do
this end?

If you mean the stuff like:

---x---
No carrots will be wet rude butchers.

Just living behind a diet outside the moon is too quiet for Elisa to
burn it. No cheap barbers throughout the noisy station were combing at
the weak shower. Edwin! You'll believe eggs. Just now, I'll pull the
yogi.

She'd rather change cruelly than play with Aloysius's easy cloud.
---x---

the first load that I saw all had the header

X-Complaints-To:

so I just killed on that. Some might consider this a bit too broad-brush
an approach, but I don't really mind. I doubt there are very many
serious contributors here from Korea, and if there are I can always
refetch them later. It's only usenet, after all...

If you mean the stuff cross-posted to:

Newsgroups: demon.local, alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,
talk.politics.animals, uk.environment.conservation, uk.rec.birdwatching,
scot.birds, uk.rec.gardening, uk.business.agriculture,
uk.rec.fishing.coarse, sci.agriculture.poultry

you could try killing anything that's cross-posted to more than, say, 3
groups. Decide for yourself if that would be OTT. I suspect not.

I also find anything (cross)posted to alt.talk.******** to be pretty
much what I'd expect from that group, and not worth seeing.

--
Ian Cummings

The message k
from Sacha contains these words:


So what would you recommend Judith to use?

zimacs, the terrific inhouse newsreader provided by my dead cheap
superhelpful isp zetnet. One post to our internal "help" ng, with
details, and the nuisance was immediately filtered out.

Janet.

Sacha wrote:
On 26/7/05 13:41, in article ,
" wrote:

Sacha wrote:
On 26/7/05 12:30, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:59:51 +0100, Judith Lea
wrote:

Could anyone tell me how to stop newsgroup spam - I have reported it to
Demon but nothing seems to be happening - is there anything I can do
this end?

Try filtering out the subject and the posters?

Nobody can filter the amount of junk that's been sent to this group lately.
Judith needs an ISP that helps to do some of that. Freeserve, who I used,
seemed to stop a lot of it, but not all of it.

... but with a decent newsreader it's trivial to ignore even that huge
amount of junk. It took me only a few seconds to realise what had
happened, look to see if anything interesting was interspersed and
then 'mark as read' the whole lot.

So what would you recommend Judith to use?

I'd recommend her to do a bit of investigation and, maybe, ask around from
experienced people what they recommend. Without knowing her requirements and
what OS she is using it's not sensible to make suggestions.

A little bit of work done choosing one's software carefully repays the effort
many times over IMHO.

--
Chris Green

Kay wrote:
In article , writes
Sacha wrote:
On 26/7/05 12:30, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:59:51 +0100, Judith Lea
wrote:

Could anyone tell me how to stop newsgroup spam - I have reported it to
Demon but nothing seems to be happening - is there anything I can do
this end?

Try filtering out the subject and the posters?

Hardly. A mailbomb attack depends on each of the 1000 or so emails
having a different subject and apparent poster.

Nobody can filter the amount of junk that's been sent to this group lately.
Judith needs an ISP that helps to do some of that. Freeserve, who I used,
seemed to stop a lot of it, but not all of it.

... but with a decent newsreader it's trivial to ignore even that huge
amount of junk. It took me only a few seconds to realise what had
happened, look to see if anything interesting was interspersed and
then 'mark as read' the whole lot.

Fine if you have broadband but a pain if you have to wait for that lot
to download over a phone connection.

I didn't, I only saw the headers. I used to use the same newsreader that I use
now back in the days of 2400baud (and slower) connections.

--
Chris Green

"Judith Lea" wrote in message
...
Could anyone tell me how to stop newsgroup spam - I have reported it to
Demon but nothing seems to be happening - is there anything I can do
this end?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07...pammer_killed/

Bob

In message , Bob Hobden
writes

"Sacha" wrote after...
"Martin" wrote in reply to Judith Lea

Could anyone tell me how to stop newsgroup spam - I have reported it to
Demon but nothing seems to be happening - is there anything I can do
this end?

Try filtering out the subject and the posters?

Nobody can filter the amount of junk that's been sent to this group
lately.
Judith needs an ISP that helps to do some of that. Freeserve, who I used,
seemed to stop a lot of it, but not all of it.

http://news.individual.net did a good job, well worth the 10 EUR (few £'s) a
year, some spam/crossposted junk appeared for a few hours then disappeared
when they caught up.

Can't say I've noticed much, but then I'm only skimmming urg at the
moment. I don't use n.i.n anymore, my ISP news service is outsourced to
Supernews and I suspect that they killed a lot of it as well.
--
Chris French and Helen Johnson, Leeds
urg Suppliers and References FAQ:
http://www.familyfrench.co.uk/garden/urgfaq/index.html

"Judith Lea" wrote in message
...
Could anyone tell me how to stop newsgroup spam - I have reported it to
Demon but nothing seems to be happening - is there anything I can do
this end?
-- Judith Lea

Get Mark to read most of it :~))
Jenny

In article , Janet Tweedy
writes
In article , Kay
writes

Fine if you have broadband but a pain if you have to wait for that lot
to download over a phone connection.



Can you not see it Online Kay so that it can be deleted quickly?

I'm broadband, so I don't care :-) Took me about 10 secs to scan for the
few urg posts and then hit 'mark all as read'.
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

In article , Charlie
Pridham writes
Well as soon as I saw the number of headers I assumed this was not all my
missing posts :~) and stopped after down loading all the headers, all the
Urg stuff was at one end so I just marked everything as read then marked the
urg messages as unread and flagged them to down load next time, bit of a
pain but certainly not bad enough to change anything and I am using OE. took
about 60 seconds to sort.
I did not look at the other stuff, where did it come from? (I know someone
said it was from Hongkong) surely no one would bother to make up that many
messages just to annoy a few gardeners?

It's automatically generated so it's no bother ;-)
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"