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Posted by Kyle on March 8, 2008, 11:57 am
On Mar 8, 7:17 am, letter...@invalid.com wrote:
> wrote:
>
>
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> >> Most of the spam in this NG seems to originate in @gmail accounts.
> >[snip]
> >> Can someone tell me how to block newsgroup messages from all
> >> gmail accounts?
>
> >Two problems with your idea:
> >(1) you may very well block any valid message where the poster uses a
> >Gmail account for the 'bots to harvest off the Newsgroups.
> >(2) Gmail isn't the only problem. Remember the past couple weeks with
> >that mentally unbalanced person who posted under seven or eight
> >different Hotmail addresses?
>
> >Anyone know if Popfile works with newsreaders, or if there's something
> >similar (something with Bayesian filtering that learns as it goes) we
> >could use?
>
> >(Yes, yes, I know; I'm posting from Google groups. Shoot me. I'm at
> >the office.)
>
> Hold on a second, I got to load my rifle !!!!! :)
>
> What is popfile?
>
> Mentally unbalanced is that M15 idiot. I had to look up an archive on
> googlegroups the other day. There were about 50 posts in one day, and
> every day on a newsgroup that only has about 20 posts per day. I'm
> thankful that aioe.org has blocked that moron.
>
> Seriously, the question that keeps coming up, is WHY IS GOOGLE NOT
> FILTERING THE OUTGOING MESSAGES?
>
> What if everyone that's fed up with all their garbage were to start
> bombarding them with complaints? I'm ready to start.
Remember the days of Google's "do no evil"? I wonder how they'd parse
out "do" versus "allow" or "aid and abet"?
There's a part of me that resents being filtered simply because
idiots, jerks and other $*%&^@#ers abuse Google and Google doesn't
police their interface. And there's a part of me that understands and
doesn't want to be a part of something that is abused and therefore
being abusive.
So is there something that has GG's feature set that's (hopefully) web-
based or, if not web-based, I could install on multiple systems and
works with USENET similar to the way IMAP works with email?
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