Re: re spam, sequel to a book I do not intend to name or buy because the publisher is spamming.

On 23-Apr-2008, "Marcus L. Rowland" <forgottenfutures@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> n message <fum68u$6qr$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Keith F. Lynch
> <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
> >David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> BluePencil@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> >>> Way to go, Marcus.  Only post is possibly the last two hundred not
> >>> hawking watches, sneakers, or enlarged *****es -- actually relating
> >>> to the introduction of a book, for which some people have been
> >>> waiting 20+ years -- and you take offense and refer to it as spam.
> >
> >> I gather you haven't actually been reading the group.
> >
> >It's possible that a totally unfiltered rasff newsfeed *is* mostly
> >spam.  I haven't looked at one recently, so I don't know.
>
> Not really - there are occasional bad days but I'm typically seeing a
> couple of spams a day on RASFF, so unless one of the two or three people
> I've killfiled is spamming there really isn't that much going on. And
> that isn't something I killfile for, since spammers rarely post under
> the same name twice. It's possible that the usenet service I use
> (news.individual.net) is filtering, of course, but if so I haven't
> noticed it, and some other newsgroups seem to be a lot worse.

Just for the heck of it, I blew away all messages last night at 7pm and
just
downloaded tonight at 7:30.  94 new messages in the last 24 hours, ten of
which are spam.  Think I had a few more than that yesterday.  RoadRunner
doesn't do any spam filtering on news.  Might do it through the weekend
just
to see how it goes.

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