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11-28-2006, 04:14 PM
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junk/garbage posts
Whats the deal with these garbage posts in the VHDL news group.
Is there any way these people can be banned ? I am not sure how this group is administered, but it would be nice if bogus posts could be removed... just my 2 cents wallge |
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11-28-2006, 06:04 PM
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Re: junk/garbage posts
wallge wrote: > Whats the deal with these garbage posts in the VHDL news group. > Is there any way these people can be banned ? > I am not sure how this group is administered, but it would be nice if > bogus posts > could be removed... > > > just my 2 cents top posting it multiple is very bad, but then maybe its MI5 showing off the potential techniques they'll use if you do a pollonium spy on them  cheers |
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11-28-2006, 07:00 PM
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Re: junk/garbage posts
On 28 Nov 2006 08:14:03 -0800, wallge <> wrote:
> Whats the deal with these garbage posts in the VHDL news group. > Is there any way these people can be banned ? > I am not sure how this group is administered, but it would be nice if > bogus posts > could be removed... I believe that there are a large number of volunteers that work diligently at killing spam messages on usenet. So already a large proportion of the junk/spam is filtered out. Beyond that, the only answer is moderation. Not really worth it for a 20 post a day newsgroup. A bientot Paul (Not speaking for Mentor Graphics) -- Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr (for what it's worth) Surgery: ennobled Gerald. |
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11-28-2006, 07:43 PM
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Re: junk/garbage posts
wallge wrote:
> Whats the deal with these garbage posts in the VHDL news group. > Is there any way these people can be banned ? > I am not sure how this group is administered, but it would be nice if > bogus posts > could be removed... To a large extent, the number of "garbage posts" you see is determined by where you are reading usenet news from. How many are you seeing? Some hosts do a very good job of "filtering", that is, they honor the cancels that Floyd mentions. Other news hosts do not, or do a poor job. I have used newsguy (a pay service) and the news server provided by pacbell/sbc/yahoo (which I think is actually provided by Supernews, another pay service), and both do an excellent job (IMO) of keeping the newsgroup clean. |
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11-28-2006, 10:50 PM
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Re: junk/garbage posts
google groups
there are a ton of garbage posts today Duane Clark wrote: > wallge wrote: > > Whats the deal with these garbage posts in the VHDL news group. > > Is there any way these people can be banned ? > > I am not sure how this group is administered, but it would be nice if > > bogus posts > > could be removed... > > To a large extent, the number of "garbage posts" you see is determined > by where you are reading usenet news from. How many are you seeing? > > Some hosts do a very good job of "filtering", that is, they honor the > cancels that Floyd mentions. Other news hosts do not, or do a poor job. > I have used newsguy (a pay service) and the news server provided by > pacbell/sbc/yahoo (which I think is actually provided by Supernews, > another pay service), and both do an excellent job (IMO) of keeping the > newsgroup clean. |
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11-28-2006, 11:34 PM
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Re: junk/garbage posts
wallge wrote:
> google groups > there are a ton of garbage posts today Ah.. I took a look over there. A bunch of posts about MI5 persecution... how relevant  Fortunately, they are not showing up on my news server Maybe someone over at google is spending to much time doing online shopping for christmas. |
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11-29-2006, 08:07 PM
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Re: junk/garbage posts
All of these posts are coming from one "free" news server.
Contact them about it; they are the ones allowing it to happen, and they should have the ability to cancel the posts. |
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