Am I getting old and crusty or is this NG getting spammed with filth more these days?
yeah, is there some kind of filter we can use to block this crap out? it's happening to all of my newsgroups all of a sudden. it didn't used to be a problem at all. god i hate spam.
Yes, you're using Outlook Express 6.0. You highlight the offending post, and select "Message>Block Sender" and the spammer disappears with all of his posts.
Usenet in general has had problems with spam since before the Great Renaming. Ask your local NNTP server admin about spam problems, and you'll learn more than you ever wanted to know. Radford: Spammers forge their From: addresses, and they rarely if ever use the same From: twice. This approach amounts to nothing more than a neverending whack-a-mole game. It's better than nothing but still less than ideal. The current best way of dealing with spammers is to apply a Bayesian filter either at the NNTP server or at the NNTP client. Since most ISPs don't even care about Usenet and wish it'd go away, you'll have a hard time getting an ISP's NNTP admin to do the extra work. Client-side filters are easier to set up, but I'd be surprised if LookOut Express (any version) does anything but the most basic filtering out of the box. Better NNTP clients exist; slrn, tin, pan, emacs, Knode, and Forte Agent are 6 of them. Finally, I haven't seen *any* of this spam except in the followups legitimate posters have posted. news.cis.dfn.de has a competent admin who hates spam, I guess. Good on him!
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