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Paul McKechnie - 02 Jan 2008 12:11 GMT

Does anyone know how to stop all these "SPAM" post which are starting to get
in the way and take up a lot of bandwidth. If you will notice, this person
uses a different FROM address and a different SUBJECT for each post making
it difficult to block them.
Paul

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Richard Cole - 02 Jan 2008 12:21 GMT

>Does anyone know how to stop all these "SPAM" post which are starting to get
>in the way and take up a lot of bandwidth. If you will notice, this person
>uses a different FROM address and a different SUBJECT for each post making
>it difficult to block them.

Paul

I find that automatically deleting all postings to more than 3 newsgroups
kills all of the spam. My news reader has that facility built in, but I
don't know how you could do it in Outlook with using something like
NewsProxy and defining rules in that.

Richard
Web pages: http://www.caravanningnow.co.uk/ for caravanning,
http://www.rcole.org/ for my personal web site and
http://www.homeindorset.co.uk because I love the email address.

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fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege. -
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weelliott@gmail.com - 02 Jan 2008 14:06 GMT

I wonder if google could do anything about it. All of the posts have
persecution M-I5 in them. I think the person needs mental help. I read
one of their posts once, and I kind of feel sorry for them, but
definitely don't feel like reading their stuff. They seem to be the
epitome of paranoid.

Have a good day,
Bill

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Richard Cole - 02 Jan 2008 14:32 GMT

>I wonder if google could do anything about it. All of the posts have
>persecution M-I5 in them. I think the person needs mental help. I read
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>
>Have a good day,

Bill

As I said, I don't see any of these postings, unless some stupid sod
re-posts the whole message with a one line comment attached, so don't know
where the initiate from. In the 17 newsgroups that I subscribe to, there
are currently 12 threads (including this one) on this problem, so a Goggle
Groups search on SPAM, filtering, censorship should find some of the
solutions suggested so far.

Certainly if it's being posted by a Google user, then complain to Google
(groups-abuse@google.com) and then might withdraw the persons ability to
post after a week or so. If you are viewing this using Google (rather than
a newsgroup reading program like Agent, Thunderbird or even Outlook
Express) then there's not a hope that Google will remove these postings as
that would be censorship.

Have a good day

Richard
Web pages: http://www.caravanningnow.co.uk/ for caravanning,
http://www.rcole.org/ for my personal web site and
http://www.homeindorset.co.uk because I love the email address.

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'If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly,' said Granny,
fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege. -
Equal Rights by Terry Pratchett

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Tiger - 02 Jan 2008 14:36 GMT

The poster made it hard to have it automatically deleted... his email and
subject lines are all different every time. I am still trying to figure out
a way in outlook express.

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Many - 02 Jan 2008 16:33 GMT

> The poster made it hard to have it automatically deleted... his email and
> subject lines are all different every time. I am still trying to figure
> out
> a way in outlook express.

Persecution will be a self fulfilling prophesy if I ever get a hold of his
real identity :)

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jch - 02 Jan 2008 20:09 GMT

> The poster made it hard to have it automatically deleted... his email and
> subject lines are all different every time. I am still trying to figure out
> a way in outlook express.

_____
I use a filter in Thunderbird as follows:
1) a combination of M, I, and 5, and mark the message as "Read"
2) a word that starts with an M, and ends with a 5, and mark the
message as "Read"

Indeed, the subject is cleverly "mangled" with spaces, commas, periods
and other characters to make filtering difficult.

This works as a single filter in Thunderbird for all newsgroups. I
don't use MS Outlook Express. Perhaps other newsgroup members can test
this filtering method?

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Regards / JCH

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RD - 02 Jan 2008 17:26 GMT

I have seen other groups much more infected than this one.
Poor devil.
It must be a full time job!!!
He or she will probably stop sometime without a salary.

RD

> Does anyone know how to stop all these "SPAM" post which are starting to
> get in the way and take up a lot of bandwidth. If you will notice, this
> person uses a different FROM address and a different SUBJECT for each post
> making it difficult to block them.
> Paul

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