On 07/12/2023 18:02, Curtis Jones wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 10:48:32 AM UTC-8, Stefano Lanzavecchia wrote:
>> On Tuesday 5 December 2023 at 15:52:16 UTC+1, mkr wrote:
>>> it looks like the group has been overtaken by massive quantities of spam. does anyone know of a way to work around it?
>>>
>>> Mike
>> As far as I can tell, it's not just this newsgroup: other newsgroups I read regularly suffer from the same recrudescence of spam. I hope it's just a transitory phase and somebody will close the loophole that let the spammers in.
>> In the meantime, I report them on google.groups which mirrors the usenet groups.
>> --
>> Stefano
> Stefanon, It's pretty awful. Please note the circled "i" in the upper right to "Report abuse". I've been using it, and it might help if the rest of us did, too. Curtis
Hello Stef,
I access this newsgroup via eternal september (ES). The is much
discussion in the group "eternal-september.support" (ESS) about the high
level of span and how to cope with it. Ray, who setup and runs ES, is
very diligent in filtering out spam. Much of the discussion is about
avoiding false positives and false negatives so that the filter will
show you all the valid messages and none of the spam. Indeed there was a
post by Ray this morning in ESS saying (I paraphrase) "I was was
expecting this after X published his filter rules".
Most of the spam Ray filters out seems to come from Google Groups (GG).
I certainly find comp.lang.apl (CLA) very usable with a low ratio of
spam to good stuff. CLA is a bit inactive these days but well worth
lurking in. I suppose the choice is between learning to run a filter for
yourself or to hide behind an energetically run usenet service provider
who does it for you.
best wishes, Ellis
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