Slightly OT,but needed information.How to control spams in this group?

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Dear All, For the past 1 week I am really disgusted to see more then 500 spams per day in this group and all these seem to relate to a religion.I am a daily reader in this group and want to avoid wasting my time searching for non spam messages.Are everyone facing the same problem in this group or it has got to do with some settings in my side to avoid spams ?How to control such spams? It wastes so much resources like time and bandwidth. Help me if any of you have got tips.One day I found 500 messages at a stretch which has got nothing to do with embedded.

Regards, s.subbarayan

Robert Adsett · Accepted Answer

Religion?  You're reading a lot more into them then I managed to.Robert-- Posted via a free Usenet account from

Ray Haddad · Answer

It appears you are posting via Google Groups. Nothing you can do.

If you use an ISP with a full NNTP server, you can do a lot via your ISP. Does your ISP support NNTP? If so, get Forte Agent and give it a go. Great internal scripting and filtering will help a lot.

-- Ray

msg · Answer

Wow, I would have never known; I use Supernews NNTP feed and thereare _zero_ spams for me...Regards,Michael

ssubbarayan · Answer

Hi, the reason wanting to avoid it.Regards,s.subbarayan

larwe · Answer

And for the many people for whom this isn't practical - let's see you install Thunderbird on my iPhone, or manage the five or six sets of configurations (and duplicated locally downloaded messages) I'd need to deal with all the news servers in the locations I find myself, and the tunneling software I'd need to contact an NNTP server from where I work - well, what about us?

Google needs local filters.

CBFalconer · Answer

You have a definite point.  I live in the last century - phones arewired, etc.  Gives me immunity to many things.--  Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net)      Try the download section.-- Posted via a free Usenet account from

Not Really Me · Answer

I use  and can say nearly the same.  Essentially no spam. Unless you count head hunter postings...Scott

Ulf Samuelsson · Answer

"ssubbarayan"  skrev i meddelandet news:I saw it for one day, and then it was gone.You should try to find a news provider which has a good filter.-- Best Regards,Ulf SamuelssonThis is intended to be my personal opinion which may,or may not be shared by my employer Atmel Nordic AB

Everett M. Greene · Answer

[snip]I got 500+ via a simple NNTP server on one day.  I believe it was400+ another day.  All in this newsgroup.Thankfully, I've seen it only twice...

Slightly OT,but needed information.How to control spams in this group?

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