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OT: Blocking Gmail domain? cshenk 01-31-2008
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Posted by JoeSpareBedroom on February 1, 2008, 9:28 am
> cshenk wrote:
>>
>> Just the *.gmail.com senders but a check shows I'll be blocking a
>> really good poster in another newsgroup if I do that. Too bad. Seems
>> that 9 of 10 spams I get, come from *.gmail.com. You see a few
>> from yahoo etc, but not much.
>
> What effect does email blocking have on newsgroup posters? Unless you're
> using a horrid web-based usenet access method.
>


I think he meant blocking usenet messages which CONTAIN a certain email
domain. These messages aren't really "email", but they contain a domain name
(even if it's a fake one sometimes).



Posted by cshenk on February 1, 2008, 4:52 pm
"HeyBub" wrote
>> Just the *.gmail.com senders but a check shows I'll be blocking a
>> really good poster in another newsgroup if I do that. Too bad. Seems
>> that 9 of 10 spams I get, come from *.gmail.com. You see a few
>> from yahoo etc, but not much.
>
> What effect does email blocking have on newsgroup posters? Unless you're
> using a horrid web-based usenet access method.

Its OE and it works that way. I know it's not the fanciest way to read, but
it's functional.



Posted by larry on February 1, 2008, 11:40 am
cshenk wrote:


> Just the *.gmail.com senders but a check shows I'll be blocking a really
> good poster in another newsgroup if I do that. Too bad. Seems that 9 of 10
> spams I get, come from *.gmail.com. You see a few from yahoo etc, but not
> much.


Easy, set a filter for the group, then a filter to allow the
good poster.

If you have a good news reader, and you subscribe to a dozen
groups, it's much easier to turn on the cross posting
filter. The spammers cross post, and as an added benefit
you also catch the infamous trolls ;-)

-- larry / dallas

Posted by on February 1, 2008, 7:57 pm


>> cshenk wrote:
>>> Just wondering but is anyone here using Gmail? There's so much spam
>>> hitting from there, I was thinking to block the whole domain and be done
>>> with it.
>>
>> Gmail or Google Groups? Not quite the same thing. You can have a Groups
>> account without a working Gmail account. I keep a groups account to use
>> while traveling, rather than mess with setting up a newsreader on whatever
>> box I am borrowing.
>>
>
>Just the *.gmail.com senders but a check shows I'll be blocking a really
>good poster in another newsgroup if I do that. Too bad. Seems that 9 of 10
>spams I get, come from *.gmail.com. You see a few from yahoo etc, but not
>much.
>

Google is one of the worst spammers online. Thats how they pay their
top employees a 6 digit salary every year, so we can all use their
crappy search engine, which contains at least 50% dead or obsolete
links.

Posted by G. Morgan on January 31, 2008, 11:37 pm
cshenk wrote:

>Just wondering but is anyone here using Gmail? There's so much spam hitting
>from there, I was thinking to block the whole domain and be done with it.
>

I block all Google Grouper's. See www.improve-usenet.org . MSOLE has no way
to do it natively so you'll need to get NewsProxy. See threads in
news.software.readers for help getting it running.

--
-G-
1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

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