On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:58:10 +0100, Andy Champ wrote:
> Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>>
>> Bad idea. It's faster to weed out the spam in a Usenet group (with
>> a Usenet reader program) than to read a web forum. Also, a real
>> Usenet reader program will allow you to score down or suppress
>> messages matching certain keywords - e.g., I suppress all
>> messages with at least to commas on the Newgroups: line in
>> this newsgroup, and it's fine...
>>
>> I notice you're using google groups to read, so you don't see the
>> benefits of a Usenet group (speed and filtering). Get real Usenet
>> access and use, e.g., slrn or Thunderbird to read it.
>>
> Umm. If you can tell me how to set Thunderbird to filter like that I'd
> be really pleased.
>
> I seem to be winning though, 64 new posts tonight of which only 15 made
> it through my filters and only 2 of those were spam.
>
> Andy
You are a ****ing hero!
--
Martin
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