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| If you can predict strings of characters
likely to appear in the Subject lines of spam, for example "$$$",
you may be able to filter some out by appropriate kill-file rules. Few
genuine articles are likely to be crossposted to more than 4 groups,
so killing all articles crossposted to 5 or more groups may be a good
idea. The following custom rule will do this in Turnpike (remembering
that rules only apply to the group in which they have been defined):
/^Newsgroups:.*,.*,.*,.*,/h
If you want to kill on crossposting
to N or more newsgroups, then you will
need N-1 occurrences of .*,
If your newsreading software allows you to download groups in browse mode, i.e. where you initially download only the article headers and subsequently request the bodies of articles that appear of interest, then this may be the best solution for a group heavily overrun with spam. The most extreme measure you could take, short of giving up news altogether, would be to subscribe only to moderated groups. In these groups articles are sent to a moderator and only appear in the group once he/she has approved them as suitable for the group. Currently, the number of moderated groups is small, however. Please don't post follow-up articles to a piece of spam. The perpetrator is most unlikely to read what you say and, since much spam gets cancelled anyway, you will only draw attention to an article that may well no longer exist. |
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