Download FixNews and dump the trash

Aug 01, 2005 6 Replies

Spammers never quit, so download FixNews for Netscape 3 or 4, if that's what you use. The filtering is great, but isn't transparently usable. You need to view the Help files for information on "wildcards" and edit the "Killfile.txt" file manually. Add the following to killfile crap posted by the spammer who posts Subjects all in caps as above:



AuthorX=@*becomerichs*



where X is the next line of the killfiles authors in the text file. And be sure to put Jon Banquer and Cliffy in there:



AuthorX=@*jon banquer* AuthorX=@*jon_banquer* AuthorX=@* snipped-for-privacy@aol.com*



BTW, the @ symbol means "regardless of case" and the * is a wildcard just as you would use it in a DOS batch file.



Further BTW, in the Options tab of the FixNews popup dialog box be sure to UNcheck the Easy Scrolling option. It messes up right-click flyout menus in Netscape.



'Sporky'


Spork,

Could you share what you know on low cost/no cost news servers?

News SERVERS, Amigo? Or news readers? Don't know much about low/no cost SERVERS. My Usenet service comes via my ISP (Bellsloth) and of course I have to pay for service. Their (sorry a$$) Usenet news server comes with the package. I use Google for the archives -- and that's all I use it for. As far as news READERS are concerned, I like Netscape, but Mozilla has a free email/news client called Thunderbird. It's a lot like Netscape (no surprise, since Netscape was based on Mozilla).

Mark 'Sporky' Stapleton Charlotte, NC

Hey TOP (Paul),

I have Comcast here and they were using giganews which was OK, but they just went to their own news server, total crap so far (I'm sure it will get better)!! Anyway, someone here pointed me to news.excelonline.com and it is VERY responsive, almost immediate.

FWIW, Muggs

BTW, I'm glad you like the monicor. Do I get a royalty???

Muggs wrote: > Hey TOP (Paul), >

Hmmm.

[jim@littlebit jim]$ telnet newsgroups.comcast.net 119 Trying 216.196.97.136... Connected to newsgroups.comcast.net (216.196.97.136). Escape character is '^]'. 200 News.GigaNews.Com [jim@littlebit jim]$ dig -x 216.196.97.136

; DiG 9.3.0 -x 216.196.97.136 ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER

Well Jim,

Whatever you just is well over my pea brain, but I'll take your word for it. But it's not as responsive as it was!?!

Muggs

...

If we could just get Google to allow filtering. Unfortunately, my only access to usenet at work is via Google :<

cd

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