It's true there is a lot more spam on usenet. I think the answer is to use a spam filter on client viewer. Someone told me of ignore messages in Google Groups using the Greas Monkey extension to Firefox. I have not tried this as of yet.
----- Original Message ---- From: Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <[email protected]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:56:13 PM Subject: Re: N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com Randall Shimizu wrote: > N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access | The Iconoclast Usenet has taken a horrible dive in recent years. I have been reading usenet since 1989. The groups back then were MORE active with more useful content than they are now. Now it is all spam and much less actual content. It seems a lot of the discussion has moved to web forums which I find really depressing. I can't stand corresponding via web forums. So slow and inconvenient. However, I am surprised that more news servers did not drop the alt.binaries groups ages ago due to the massive resources they take up. I can't conceive of how they were ever worth carrying. -- Tracy R Reed Read my blog at http://ultraviolet.org Key fingerprint = D4A8 4860 535C ABF8 BA97 25A6 F4F2 1829 9615 02AD Non-GPG signed mail gets read only if I can find it among the spam. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
