SPAM is killing this newsgroup!

Sure. Drop me an E-mail and I'll send you a copy of mine. It is however, a work in progress, and will change significantly as I learn regular expressions ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Mart>On the contrary, OE is a news client.

Hardly. There are lots of examples to demonstrate that the World's worst email client simply has Port 119 access pasted on. news: snipped-for-privacy@k1g2000prb.googlegroups.com

Anyone who says that Micros~1 knows how to make a proper Usenet client.

Well, yeah, I could use some help pulling an old steel post but I guess I'll have to just wing it :-)

affected by spam yet while others are under

No, it isn't. OE WANTS to be a news client,and fails miserably at the task. You're still the idiot. Mainly for using it, and secondarily for claiming that it is viable.

Try to keep up.

What? No "come-along"?

With the new hip, I'm back up to speed, climbing trees and chain-sawing limbs ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Unfortunately not. I just cantilevered it out. Huge I-beam, so heavy that I had to use the hand truck to haul it up the driveway.

Great!

Now you got the priorities right!

I've been boycotting Google for years. I've found that Search.com is just as good, if not better. I've never had trouble finding datasheets with search.com.

But to Reuters they're "terrorists".

Is filtering on the path header more reliable than using the Message-ID?

Seconded. I've been switching back-and-forth between the news60.forteinc.com and cox.net and discovered that both are sometimes needed.

...Jim Thompson

No. Anyone in the world who has access to a news client can post anything in the world that they want to.

Your best bet is to use your brain and don't trollfeed.

Good Luck! Rich

Toss "regular expressions" at the search engine of choice. plenty of help, tutorials, etc..

Now if only you could follow your own advice better.

...Jim Thompson

That won't stop the SPAM.

Fred, Do you enjoy being a tiresome asshole?

...Jim Thompson

That's exactly what happened...and why we have all this spam now, and that flooding previously.

Why? Because you keep feeding the troll? And Michael keeps feeding you. Like the movie with a similar name... Two Jerks ;-)

...Jim Thompson

"Usenet"? What's that? Is it something like the Internet? You say it's got "news groups"? You mean like CNN and MSNBC or something? Oh, yeah, written messages, like texting! i gt u k now k tks

There's a very low probability that 60 Minutes is planning an expose' of GoogleGroupers spamming the sci.electronics.* tree, but stranger things have happened, I guess...

Jim, just kill filter bloggsy. Ii finally did.