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Billy - 18 May 2009 21:56 GMT

I switched to ATT from Earthlink and now my favorite newsgroup is full of
spam!!! Please don't tell me I screwed up royal!!

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Bruce Porter - 19 May 2009 16:41 GMT

> I switched to ATT from Earthlink and now my favorite newsgroup is full
> of spam!!! Please don't tell me I screwed up royal!!

Probably.
Which AT&T service did you have?

http://morrisville.home.att.net/ATT.wav

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Bill - 19 May 2009 17:20 GMT

I think they are all full of spam.
I use bellsouth/at&t, and I see spam.
Probably a filter you set.

>I switched to ATT from Earthlink and now my favorite newsgroup is full of
>spam!!! Please don't tell me I screwed up royal!!

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jmc - 20 May 2009 03:04 GMT

Suddenly, without warning, Bill exclaimed (5/19/2009 12:20 PM):

> I think they are all full of spam.
> I use bellsouth/at&t, and I see spam.
> Probably a filter you set.
>
>> I switched to ATT from Earthlink and now my favorite newsgroup is full of
>> spam!!! Please don't tell me I screwed up royal!!

Could be a filter Earthlink set that ATT doesn't use. Fortunately, you
can set your own filters, I have a bunch of folks in killfiles. Some
for spam, some 'cause they're idjits :)

jmc

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Billy - 21 May 2009 02:20 GMT

> Suddenly, without warning, Bill exclaimed (5/19/2009 12:20 PM):
>> I think they are all full of spam.
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>
> jmc

Yeah, I know that I will have to start using them. Att does its best to also
have yahoo take over your system. Almost like being on aol. Least ways now I
am getting the messages here but unfortunally I'm hung with the news groups
out of news.snet.sbcglobal.net. Funny thing is that I can get news from
newsgroups.bellsouth.net but can't post cause I took the save money package
and ordered online.
I'm ok now that I can still read this group and sometimes post. I live out
where they ship in the sunshine in a truck
and earthlink's 1.5Mbps was all they could offer. Now that I switched I get
3Mbps/384Kbps for less! Sorry about the off topic but it scared the poo out
of me when I saw all the spam!!! I'm 59 disabled and have an 02 Ram 1500
series and have an a/c problem that I posted last year and you guys treated
me good and I also thank Tom for the private email. I still haven't fixed it
yet!! Lol. I will post more on this later. I learned a lot here.

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jmc - 21 May 2009 11:22 GMT

Suddenly, without warning, Billy exclaimed (5/20/2009 9:20 PM):

>> Suddenly, without warning, Bill exclaimed (5/19/2009 12:20 PM):
>>> I think they are all full of spam.
[quoted text clipped - 27 lines]
> fixed it
> yet!! Lol. I will post more on this later. I learned a lot here.

You do have another option - use a third party service. I use
news.individual.net, it's pretty reasonable at 13 euro a year (they're
out of Germany, I think). Been using them a couple of years now, don't
even bother with looking at my next ISP's news service when I move, now.

jmc

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