Spam again..a record perhaps?

James Silverton said:

I recently concluded that I don't need any messages from
googlemail sites and I am still considering killing gmail.

You're posting this garbage why, you're a paranoid schizophrenic...
you're so infantile that you need permission because you're too
ascared to just do stuff by your ownself... what's to consider, just
do it or not but STFU, be a man instead of a wishy washy wuss. I
guess the widdle booboo needs company when he goes weewee.

Sheldon Prozac

James Silverton said:

I recently concluded that I don't need any messages from
googlemail sites and I am still considering killing gmail.

I've considered, and blocked, gmail several times. Seems the "kiddies" like
that choice along with hotmail and yahoo mail. But some folks who are
regular long-time posters here also use gmail. I have no clue why they do.
So I've had to "unblock" just to figure out what some threads were about
when regulars reply because some idiots don't include the headers or quote
any part of the original post. Which means we have no idea if the OP was a
regular or just a spammer. Please use proper attributions when you quote!
And hopefully *all* the schools will be back in session soon.

Jill

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jmcquown said:

James Silverton said:

I recently concluded that I don't need any messages from
googlemail sites and I am still considering killing gmail.

I've considered, and blocked, gmail several times. Seems the "kiddies" like
that choice along with hotmail and yahoo mail. But some folks who are
regular long-time posters here also use gmail. I have no clue why they do.

Because gmail has REALLY good spam filters, it lends itself to a certain
anonymity for usenet and my Century account has become unreliable, often
filtering out (at the server level so I can't see it) legitimate
messages that I NEED to see!

Jeremy has never been able to get through to my Century account.
I think they have entire domains blocked. Gmail does not do that.
Century also killed all of my YahooGroups mail so I had to switch them
all over to gmail too.

They upgraded a couple of months ago. That's whey their reliability went
straight to hell. Even my sister and inlaws went to gmail this year and
sis' is a technophile.

Quoted message said:

So I've had to "unblock" just to figure out what some threads were about
when regulars reply because some idiots don't include the headers or quote
any part of the original post. Which means we have no idea if the OP was a
regular or just a spammer. Please use proper attributions when you quote!
And hopefully *all* the schools will be back in session soon.

Jill

Next week. :-)
--
Peace, Om

Remove _ to validate e-mails.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a [censored]" -- Jack Nicholson

jmcquown said:

James Silverton said:

I recently concluded that I don't need any messages from
googlemail sites and I am still considering killing gmail.

I've considered, and blocked, gmail several times. Seems the "kiddies" like
that choice along with hotmail and yahoo mail. But some folks who are
regular long-time posters here also use gmail. I have no clue why they do.
So I've had to "unblock" just to figure out what some threads were about
when regulars reply because some idiots don't include the headers or quote
any part of the original post. Which means we have no idea if the OP was a
regular or just a spammer. Please use proper attributions when you quote!
And hopefully *all* the schools will be back in session soon.

It still amazes me the people who can't seem the grasp the
difference between posting from Google Groups, and mail servers
like Gmail, Yahoo, hotmail, etc...

And it still amazes me that Google Groups still allows all this
shoe spam after close to 200,000 messages in 4 weeks. They simply
just don't give a [censored]. BUt as pl;ong as it motivates people to
kill everything from Google Groups (not gmail or yahoo), then I
guess all that spam does serve a purpose.

I had to read groups with Google Groups the other day and it was
horrendous weeding through all the spam. Google is just killing
themselves with all this [censored].

ObFood: Sauteed smoked chicken, mozzarella and artichoke ravioli
for breakfast.

-sw

Omelet said:

Because gmail has REALLY good spam filters,

Oh, the irony.

-sw

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Steve Wertz said:

Omelet said:

Because gmail has REALLY good spam filters,

Oh, the irony.

-sw

Huh?

I don't spam!
--
Peace, Om

Remove _ to validate e-mails.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a [censored]" -- Jack Nicholson

Omelet said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Steve Wertz said:

Omelet said:

Because gmail has REALLY good spam filters,

Oh, the irony.

Huh?

I don't spam!

Didn't say you did.

I was commenting on Google's ability to filter spam from Google
Mail so efficiently, but encourages spam in Google Groups.

-sw

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Steve Wertz said:

Omelet said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Steve Wertz said:

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:38:53 -0500, Omelet wrote:

> Because gmail has REALLY good spam filters,

Oh, the irony.

Huh?

I don't spam!

Didn't say you did.

I was commenting on Google's ability to filter spam from Google
Mail so efficiently, but encourages spam in Google Groups.

-sw

Ah. Sorry.

Gmail filters really are very good, and they appear to be "learning"
filters as they occasionally grab stuff that is NOT spam, and don't
generally repeat the error when you declare it "not spam".

I always peruse my gray mail just in case.
--
Peace, Om

Remove _ to validate e-mails.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a [censored]" -- Jack Nicholson

James Silverton said:

I just looked at r.f.cooking, marked all messages read and continued
with other groups. In less than 5 minutes, the autosychronize showed
38 messages. My filters allowed exactly one of them thro' !

I recently concluded that I don't need any messages from googlemail
sites and I am still considering killing gmail.

I don't think so, unless NIN is doing a lot of blocking. I didn't see
any spam this morning. Now, I do have some individual filters set for
popular spam topics.

BTW, did you know your character set is set to be windows-1256?

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1256>

Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

James Silverton said:

I just looked at r.f.cooking, marked all messages read and
continued with other groups. In less than 5 minutes, the
autosychronize showed 38 messages. My filters allowed exactly
one of them thro' !

I recently concluded that I don't need any messages from
googlemail sites and I am still considering killing gmail.

Get an ISP that filters most of the [censored] for you and a news reader
that allows to filer the rest without losing messages from people you
want to read.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

Default wrote on 30 Aug 2007 17:15:09 GMT:

DU> BTW, did you know your character set is set to be
DU> windows-1256?

I've been told that before and it does not seem to be any
problem tho' I've no idea how it ever happened :-) I don't see
any need for me to investigate it but I might if you tell me why
I should.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

The wrote on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:08:39 -0500:

??>> I just looked at r.f.cooking, marked all messages read and
??>> continued with other groups. In less than 5 minutes, the
??>> autosychronize showed 38 messages. My filters allowed
??>> exactly one of them thro' !
??>>
??>> I recently concluded that I don't need any messages from
??>> googlemail sites and I am still considering killing gmail.
??>>
TC> Get an ISP that filters most of the [censored] for you and a news
TC> reader that allows to filer the rest without losing
TC> messages from people you want to read.

That's pretty nearly what I have but I do find it interesting to
see the statistics prior to filtering. I will admit that the
names in my kill file are included in the count but, apart from
a very few regular posters who I don't care to read for various
reasons, the number is small. Mind you, I wouldn't be surprised
if the killing is mutual :-) A few other fertile sources of spam
are tom.com and 123.com.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

Omelet said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Steve Wertz said:

Omelet said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
Steve Wertz <[email hidden]> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:38:53 -0500, Omelet wrote:
>
>> Because gmail has REALLY good spam filters,
>
> Oh, the irony.

Huh?

I don't spam!

Didn't say you did.

I was commenting on Google's ability to filter spam from Google
Mail so efficiently, but encourages spam in Google Groups.

-sw

Ah. Sorry.

Gmail filters really are very good, and they appear to be "learning"
filters (snippage)

the "learning" is in learning how to SPAM newsgroups. I can't begin to
count how many SPAM posts (and emails) I've deleted from gmail users in just
the past week. It's ridiculous.

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jmcquown said:

Omelet said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Steve Wertz said:

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:50:47 -0500, Omelet wrote:

> In article <[email hidden]>,
> Steve Wertz <[email hidden]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:38:53 -0500, Omelet wrote:
>>
>>> Because gmail has REALLY good spam filters,
>>
>> Oh, the irony.
>
> Huh?
>
> I don't spam!

Didn't say you did.

I was commenting on Google's ability to filter spam from Google
Mail so efficiently, but encourages spam in Google Groups.

-sw

Ah. Sorry.

Gmail filters really are very good, and they appear to be "learning"
filters (snippage)

the "learning" is in learning how to SPAM newsgroups. I can't begin to
count how many SPAM posts (and emails) I've deleted from gmail users in just
the past week. It's ridiculous.

I'm presuming that Giganews has good spam filters.
I still see a few spams on the newsgroups. but they are few and far
between. Maybe 2 to 4 per day MAX.
--
Peace, Om

Remove _ to validate e-mails.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a [censored]" -- Jack Nicholson

James Silverton said:

Default wrote on 30 Aug 2007 17:15:09 GMT:

DU> BTW, did you know your character set is set to be
DU> windows-1256?

I've been told that before and it does not seem to be any problem
tho' I've no idea how it ever happened :-)

Oddly, this message is "iso-8859-1", or Western European

Quoted message said:

I don't see any need for
me to investigate it but I might if you tell me why I should.

I don't know that it would cause any newsreaders problems, no one seems
to be complaining. My newsreader displays which charset is being used,
with an option to switch to any that it recognizes. It also uses
whatever the original was in replies, unless I change it (like here,
where I've switched to US ASCII).

Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

Steve Wertz said:

And it still amazes me that Google Groups still allows all this
shoe spam after close to 200,000 messages in 4 weeks. They simply
just don't give a [censored]. BUt as pl;ong as it motivates people to
kill everything from Google Groups (not gmail or yahoo), then I
guess all that spam does serve a purpose.

I've mentioned before that Google really should get the Usenet Death
Penalty for their behavior. This tolerance for spamming is ridiculous.
I doubt anyone would care to take on the 9000lb gorilla though.

Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

James Silverton said:

I just looked at r.f.cooking, marked all messages read and
continued with other groups. In less than 5 minutes, the
autosychronize showed 38 messages. My filters allowed exactly
one of them thro' !

I recently concluded that I don't need any messages from
googlemail sites and I am still considering killing gmail.

James Silverton

i had 1,320 messages today and my newsproxy and agent filters canned
all but 370, and i gave the boot to six based on subject. i don't
know if verizon does any filtering on their side.

your pal,
blake

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:38:53 -0500, Omelet <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

jmcquown said:

James Silverton said:

I recently concluded that I don't need any messages from
googlemail sites and I am still considering killing gmail.

I've considered, and blocked, gmail several times. Seems the "kiddies" like
that choice along with hotmail and yahoo mail. But some folks who are
regular long-time posters here also use gmail. I have no clue why they do.

Because gmail has REALLY good spam filters, it lends itself to a certain
anonymity for usenet and my Century account has become unreliable, often
filtering out (at the server level so I can't see it) legitimate
messages that I NEED to see!

Jeremy has never been able to get through to my Century account.
I think they have entire domains blocked. Gmail does not do that.
Century also killed all of my YahooGroups mail so I had to switch them
all over to gmail too.

They upgraded a couple of months ago. That's whey their reliability went
straight to hell. Even my sister and inlaws went to gmail this year and
sis' is a technophile.

I refuse to use gmail, yahoo mail, or hotmail. All of them are
spammers tools, and I wont use them. On the other hand, I ma having
the same problem. My isp installed a spam blocker that tends to block
legitimate mail but lets most spam get through. In the past week I
have gotten at least 30 spams for erection pills and the like. Even a
complete computer illiterate idiot should be able to block those. I
see an isp change in the near future, but until then, I need to switch
over to a free web based email. Both so I can get my desirable email,
and so that when I change isp, I wont lose current messages. The
question is what to use. Is there a free email available that is
smaller and dont have the bad reputation that the three biggies
(above). Anyone know of anything that works and is user friendly?

Thanks

Sue & Jim

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:36:27 -0500, [email protected]

Quoted message said:

Both so I can get my desirable email,
and so that when I change isp, I wont lose current messages. The
question is what to use. Is there a free email available that is
smaller and dont have the bad reputation that the three biggies
(above). Anyone know of anything that works and is user friendly?

fastmail.fm. Free, or pay the $15/life for extra benefits.

-sw