How can we filter this bullshit out and get our group back?

I know what you mean - I use to post here over 10 years ago - wandered
past for a bit of nostalgia and thought it had all died!

A simple email request to SuperNews has taken care of it there.
It appears to be done manually so you sometimes see a few.
At this time none are present.  A similar request to my ISP, Charter,
exhausted my patience.

Gary

I've had the same result from Charter. They suck.
For temporary (hopefully) refuge a lot of us have gone over to Gordon McComb's
fallout shelter at: www.robotpalace.com/forum/

JCD

I see virtually none of it when accessing the group via a commercial
usenet service, as compared to the hundreds of posts through the
relatively unmanaged newsserver from my home DSL provider.

I think it would be A Bad Thing if all/most usenet traffic became
consolidated onto a few commercial hosts. OTOH, sometimes it's nice to
have one to fall back on.

--
Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA

twgray a écrit :

If you subscribe to a filtered news service (some of them are free),
with cleanfeed and NoCeM system enabled, you won't notice any spam/sporge.

Could you post a little more information on the "free" aspect?

-Wayne

Wayne C. Gramlich a écrit :

<http://www.albasani.net/index.html.en>  (includes filters AFAIK)
<http://news.aioe.org/>  (includes filters AFAIK)

And others:
<http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/>

Most of these servers are text-only, that is, not binary-centric, unlike
many other (bad) Internet Service provider servers which are only
interested by alt.binaries.*

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:06:46 -0800 (PST), twgray


Instead of using google, why don't you see if Time Warner has a
news server. All the spam is cancled off of my ISP's news server.
When my news reader down loads the post subject lines, I see a
quick number that apparently indicates the origional number of
new post (like ~240), but the actual subject lines downloaded may
only be ~16 spam free ones. If you want to continue to use google
groups, then you should complain to them (but good lick actually
finding a useable email address).