Randall Shimizu wrote:
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.
A spam filter isn't the solution in this case. The spam has driven away most of the active contributors such that a lot of the newsgroups I read are dead. Just yesterday a very active and valuable contributor of around 15 years announced that he was leaving the group for a web forum. The group gets maybe a couple legit posts a day now. And dozens of spam. If you filter out the spam there really isn't much left. Web forums have moderators which can delete and lock out spammers. That is the only thing they have going for them as far as I am concerned.
People have been predicting the death of Usenet for years. But in the last year or two there has been a significant change in the nature of Usenet such that it seems that it is actually happening this time.
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