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Re: english text only?
From: |
Stephen Leake |
Subject: |
Re: english text only? |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:17:58 GMT |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
address@hidden writes:
> From: address@hidden (Greg A. Woods)
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:29:23 -0500 (EST)
> [...]
> > How many people reading this have mail access, but not newsgroup
> > access?
>
> Count me out.
>
> Me too. Newsgroups, in my experience, are awash in spam,
Ok. My experience differs, but we've probably been reading different
groups.
"info-cvs" is the first mailing list/newsgroup I've encountered that
gets so much spam, so I've been blaming it on the mailing list side.
> and just too bloody much of a pain.
"pain" in what way? Your newsreader is not as friendly as your mail
reader? There are better ones out there! Netscape newsreader is pretty
good; I prefer Emacs Gnus.
> If info-cvs becomes news-only, I'll just bail on it.
>
> I've set up a redistributor for info-cvs which runs on my home
> machine. It does a fair job of filtering the crap, and is getting
> progressively better as I refine my filters. If there's interest, I
> can open it up to general subscription, and whose who care about a
> spam-limited info-cvs list can subscribe that way.
I'd like to see your list of filters, so I can add them to my Gnus
setup. I'd rather rely on the news servers than your mail server.
--
-- Stephe
- RE: english text only?, (continued)
- RE: english text only?, Vishal Jain, 2002/03/19
- RE: english text only?, Daniels, David, 2002/03/19
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- Re: english text only?, Mark A. Flacy, 2002/03/20
- Re: english text only?, Greg A. Woods, 2002/03/20
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- Re: english text only?, Stephen Leake, 2002/03/20
- Re: english text only?, Greg A. Woods, 2002/03/20
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- Re: english text only?, Stephen Leake, 2002/03/21
- RE: english text only?, Martin Rohrig, 2002/03/21
- Re: english text only?, Jani Kajala, 2002/03/21
- Re: english text only?, Greg A. Woods, 2002/03/21
- Re: english text only?, Todd Denniston, 2002/03/21
- Re: english text only?, Greg A. Woods, 2002/03/21