Newsgroup Reader filter Spam?

I use Thunderbird and try to create sufficiently generic filters. Some
days I just end up hitting 'k' on the keyboard a bunch until everything
goes away.

cmcanulty said:

Does anyone have a newsgroup reader that gets rid of the spam entries?
This group is getting to be 90+% spam! I use google currently,

--
Paul M. Hobson
..:change the f to ph to reply:.

cmcanulty said:

Does anyone have a newsgroup reader that gets rid of the spam entries?
This group is getting to be 90+% spam! I use google currently,

It's difficult to do with Google Groups. See
"http://www.holysmoke.org/ggf/index.htm".

Thunderbird and Outlook both have okay filters. Outlook is a bit better
because it's easier to apply the filter to every newsgroup (you can do
this in Thunderbird but it's a bit more awkward).

cmcanulty said:

Does anyone have a newsgroup reader that gets rid of the spam entries?
This group is getting to be 90+% spam! I use google currently,

This is frustrating - and doubly so, because Google's Gmail seems very
adept at keeping out spam.

Seems to me that Google's right hand needs to find out what its left
hand is doing.

- Frank Krygowski

cmcanulty said:

Does anyone have a newsgroup reader that gets rid of the spam entries?
This group is getting to be 90+% spam! I use google currently,

For google groups using the Firefox web browser:

Install greasemonkey extension.

Restart browser.

Install Penney's ggkiller.

Tada! You can killfile!

Drawbacks:
No wildcards.
No manually editable killfile other than under "about:config"

Quoted message said:

This group is getting to be 90+% spam! I use google currently,

=x= Insane, isn't it? What with Google's ready access
to supposedly superior search/spamfilter technology.
<_Jym_>

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Jym Dyer said:

Quoted message said:

This group is getting to be 90+% spam! I use google currently,

=x= Insane, isn't it?  What with Google's ready access
to supposedly superior search/spamfilter technology.
    <_Jym_>

I have a feeling that their "spamfilter technology" relies much on
simple flagging. To flag a post as spam with Google Groups you have to
open it, go into a dialog and tag it as spam. Much too inconvenient
compared to Gmail. I'll givem a break--it's probably not the most
profitable part of their enterprise.

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Jym Dyer said:

Quoted message said:

This group is getting to be 90+% spam! I use google currently,

=x= Insane, isn't it? What with Google's ready access
to supposedly superior search/spamfilter technology.
<_Jym_>

I have a feeling that their "spamfilter technology" relies much on
simple flagging. To flag a post as spam with Google Groups you have to
open it, go into a dialog and tag it as spam. Much too inconvenient
compared to Gmail. I'll givem a break--it's probably not the most
profitable part of their enterprise.

Quoted message said:

I agree. Filtering Usenet spam must not be a high priority for Google. If it
were simple and cheap, they would have already done it. Anyone who wants to
filter has several good newsreader tools available. I chose to just use OE
and ignore the spam.

J.

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 06:35:03 -0500, "Jay" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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Quoted message said:

I agree. Filtering Usenet spam must not be a high priority for Google. If it
were simple and cheap, they would have already done it. Anyone who wants to
filter has several good newsreader tools available. I chose to just use OE
and ignore the spam.

I finally lost my patience and kill-file posts from Google.

Andrew Price said:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 06:35:03 -0500, "Jay" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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Quoted message said:

I agree. Filtering Usenet spam must not be a high priority for Google. If it
were simple and cheap, they would have already done it. Anyone who wants to
filter has several good newsreader tools available. I chose to just use OE
and ignore the spam.

I finally lost my patience and kill-file posts from Google.

Google does seem to lately be the most abused of the freebies. I give
it a time-out from time to time, but some good people post from it, too.

catzz66 said:

Quoted message said:

I finally lost my patience and kill-file posts from Google.

Google does seem to lately be the most abused of the freebies. I give
it a time-out from time to time, but some good people post from it, too.

I have a "white list" for them. All the rest ===> trash.

Paul M. Hobson said:

I use Thunderbird and try to create sufficiently generic filters. Some
days I just end up hitting 'k' on the keyboard a bunch until everything
goes away.

Too much Thunderbird causes top posting:
<http://www.bumwine.com/tbird.html>.

Quoted message said:

cmcanulty said:

Does anyone have a newsgroup reader that gets rid of the spam entries?
This group is getting to be 90+% spam! I use google currently,

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

cmcanulty said:

Does anyone have a newsgroup reader that gets rid of the spam entries?
This group is getting to be 90+% spam! I use google currently,

My newsfeed must be deleting about 95% of the spam, then, as I only see
occasional posts.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

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Quoted message said:

Paul M. Hobson said:

I use Thunderbird and try to create sufficiently generic filters. Some
days I just end up hitting 'k' on the keyboard a bunch until everything
goes away.

Too much Thunderbird causes top posting:
<http://www.bumwine.com/tbird.html>.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

Now Tom...

Paul just does not know our ways.

J.

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Quoted message said:

cmcanulty said:

Does anyone have a newsgroup reader that gets rid of the spam entries?
This group is getting to be 90+% spam! I use google currently,

My newsfeed must be deleting about 95% of the spam, then, as I only see
occasional posts.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

Probably.

Lately, the spam has been quite obnoxious. I don't filter, so I see all of
it. But of course, I don't read it, or let it bother me.

J.

Paul M. Hobson said:

I use Thunderbird and try to create sufficiently generic filters. Some
days I just end up hitting 'k' on the keyboard a bunch until everything
goes away.

cmcanulty said:

Does anyone have a newsgroup reader that gets rid of the spam entries?
This group is getting to be 90+% spam! I use google currently,

Alas, a substantial majority of the spam on usenet seems to come from
Google Groups. Simply adding a check for the header line "Organization:
http://groups.google.com" to my kill file dramatically reduces the
amount of spam I see. Unfortunately, people like the OP of this
thread are also blocked, which is why I am not responding directly to
his post. I didn't see it until someone posted a reply outside of
Google Groups.

It's a shame, but Google steadfastly ignores spam complaints on Google
Groups. I find it curious because their gmail service is actually quite
effective at culling spam.

So, to the original poster I suggest finding a real news server instead
of the Google Groups web interface, and then killfiling anything
originating from Google Groups.

It works.

--

John ([email hidden])

John Thompson said:

Paul M. Hobson said:

I use Thunderbird and try to create sufficiently generic filters. Some
days I just end up hitting 'k' on the keyboard a bunch until everything
goes away.

Quoted message said:

cmcanulty said:

Does anyone have a newsgroup reader that gets rid of the spam entries?
This group is getting to be 90+% spam! I use google currently,

Alas, a substantial majority of the spam on usenet seems to come from
Google Groups. Simply adding a check for the header line "Organization:http://groups.google.com" to my kill file dramatically reduces the
amount of spam I see. Unfortunately, people like the OP of this
thread are also blocked, which is why I am not responding directly to
his post. I didn't see it until someone posted a reply outside of
Google Groups.

It's a shame, but Google steadfastly ignores spam complaints on Google
Groups. I find it curious because their gmail service is actually quite
effective at culling spam.

So, to the original poster I suggest finding a real news server instead
of the Google Groups web interface, and then killfiling anything
originating from Google Groups.

It works.

--

John ([email hidden])

That strategy will killfile many valid posts, along with much of the
spam.

J.

Quoted message said:

Filtering Usenet spam must not be a high priority for Google.
If it were simple and cheap, they would have already done it.

=v= Actually, it *is* simple and cheap. There is free software
for it that works rather well; smaller providers do it well.
Google has its own spam-fighting system that's used for GMail,
and could extend it to Usenet messages (which are in the same
format). But even if that was somehow too onerous, they could
just put the free software in use.

=v= It is baffling that they don't.
<_Jym_>