Title says it all!!! There is so much spam on this group I'm not sure anyone talks about metal anymore. Please help! Simon Shabtai Evan
Anybody have a Thunderbird filter that works on the group?
Apr 18, 2008
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There's not too much filtering you can do with Tbird. I finally gave up & got Agent. First 30 days are free. I'm cheap, but happily sprung for the 30 bucks for the joy of deleting the spammers.
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Give it a shot, at least for the trial period. Although they offer a
90 day trial news server sub with purchase, I've found that my ISP's news groups are just as good.
Joe
Hi,
Would something like Newsproxy v1.2.4 work with Thunderbird (used to be called 'Nfilter', a faq is at
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If your ISP news servers supply the headers you want to filter on, your usenet filtering ability might be vastly expanded over what you can do within Thunderbird itself.
Newsproxy is installed/set up to connect to your server, and then to your news client (in this case Thunderbird). The filters you set up in news proxy can remove a lot of the spam/crap before it's passed to Thunderbird - then you don't have to view/bother with it.
{note: AFIK, Newsproxy isn't being developed/supported any longer. Many of the downloads for Newsproxy are messed up a bit and require some extra effort to install --if you google it, you'll find the workarounds.)
Getting newsproxy set up certianly wasn't trivial for me, but I did eventually get it working with dialog 40tude.
If you like using/want to keep Thunderbird for usenet, it might be worth investigating newsproxy.
Hope it helps Bill
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