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  • Is this group moderated? So much SPAM

    From Brian Seeley@bkseeley@gmail.com to comp.sys.cbm on Friday, July 16, 2021 18:13:17
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    Is this group moderated? So much SPAM
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  • From Daniel@me@sci.fi.dan.com to comp.sys.cbm on Saturday, July 17, 2021 02:40:25
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    Brian Seeley <bkseeley@gmail.com> writes:

    Is this group moderated? So much SPAM

    I've never known of anyone moderating this NG. I setup a pretty broad
    filter so I never see them.

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    Daniel
    Visit me at: gopher://gcpp.world
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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@ank@spamfence.net to comp.sys.cbm on Saturday, July 17, 2021 06:02:11
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:13:17 -0700 (PDT), Brian Seeley wrote:

    Is this group moderated? So much SPAM

    It's not. You couldn't just post here otherwise.

    Seems you use Google Groups. You could at least flag these messages as
    spam. Better use a real newsserver known to have a good clean sweep.
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    Andreas

    https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/
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  • From Robert Bernardo@rbernardo@iglou.com to comp.sys.cbm on Saturday, July 17, 2021 14:59:17
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    I have been marking messages as spam or as hateful content. I don't know if this is doing any good.

    Truly,
    Robert Bernardo
    Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
    Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
    Nov. 6-7 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2021 - http://www.portcommodore.com/class
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  • From not@not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) to comp.sys.cbm on Sunday, July 18, 2021 01:47:02
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    Brian Seeley <bkseeley@gmail.com> wrote:
    Is this group moderated? So much SPAM

    Very little spam here on Aioe.org (some in other groups though,
    almost all coming _from_ Google Groups). Google don't have a
    reputation for caring much about their Usenet interface, you'd
    be better off moving to a real newsserver where the admin is
    active in filtering spam. Aioe in particular doesn't suit
    everyone, but there are lots of options.

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  • From Lawrence Woodman@lorrywoodman@gmail.com to comp.sys.cbm on Sunday, July 18, 2021 06:22:51
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:13:17 -0700 (PDT), Brian Seeley wrote:

    Is this group moderated? So much SPAM

    The only SPAM I get on this group is similar messages in Italian
    which always contains the word 'PEDOFILO' in the subject so I just
    set a scoring rule to ignore threads with that in the title.
    Hopefully, you can do something similar.

    Best wishes


    Lorry


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    Getting the Address of BASIC Variables on the VIC-20 https://techtinkering.com/articles/getting-the-address-of-basic-variables-on-the-vic-20/
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  • From Chris Baird@cjb+usenet@brushtail.apana.org.au to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, July 19, 2021 05:48:21
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    A proper newsreader has killfiles and scorefiles.
    You can figure out how to use them ..or maybe you can't.

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    Chris,,
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  • From Seeley Finance@seeleyfinance@gmail.com to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, July 26, 2021 16:36:58
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    On Sunday, July 18, 2021 at 3:48:27 PM UTC-4, Chris Baird wrote:
    A proper newsreader has killfiles and scorefiles.
    You can figure out how to use them ..or maybe you can't.

    --
    Chris,,

    Thanks Chris - not helpful
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  • From Chris Baird@cjb+usenet@brushtail.apana.org.au to comp.sys.cbm on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 19:02:07
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    Thanks Chris - not helpful

    Everyone please ignore that killfiles/filtering
    exists in Newsreaders because That Guy has doesn't
    have the hugcircle attitude. All Decent People
    want to help those who don't want to Google things
    for themselves.

    --
    C,,
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  • From Brian Seeley@bkseeley@gmail.com to comp.sys.cbm on Wednesday, July 28, 2021 14:14:52
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    On Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 5:02:12 AM UTC-4, Chris Baird wrote:
    Thanks Chris - not helpful
    Everyone please ignore that killfiles/filtering
    exists in Newsreaders because That Guy has doesn't
    have the hugcircle attitude. All Decent People
    want to help those who don't want to Google things
    for themselves.

    --
    C,,
    still not helpful...did google what you originally replied
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  • From Tristan Miller@psychonaut@nothingisreal.com to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, August 02, 2021 18:28:07
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    Greetings.

    On 17/07/2021 23.59, Robert Bernardo wrote:
    I have been marking messages as spam or as hateful content. I don't
    know if this is doing any good.


    Most likely all this will do is get the group dropped by Google Groups.
    Whether or not this is a good thing depends on whether you view the
    Google Groups gateway to Usenet as a net good.

    Regards,
    Tristan

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    Tristan Miller
    Free Software developer, ferret herder, logologist
    https://logological.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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