On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:26:14 +0530, "grusl" wrote:
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>"Martin" wrote in message
>news:1oc9v3h1kbik7415rbfkptuhoppgkevp6j@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:44:58 +0530, "grusl"
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Martin" wrote in message
>>>news:7ia9v3lh94tr5oe59kckcujelere9sqo57@4ax.com...
>>>> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:27:53 +0530, "grusl"
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>"David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" wrote in
>>>>>message
>>>>>news:1ietf97.1fa59mq1okiynkN%d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk...
>>>>>> Martin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On another group somebody suggested deleting spam by filtering out
>>>>>>> any
>>>>>>> post with a .com or .net address from newsgroups. Can it really be
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> easy? It seems to work with the current examples of spam.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think you'd have to whitelist a lot more people than if you filtered
>>>>>> out google groups.
>>>>
>>>> That depends on whether I think those using it are worth keeping :o)
>>>> on the other hand I can have a filter that delete .com posts which
>>>> aren't
>>>> from
>>>> google groups.
>>>>
>>>>>A lot of posters here use .net I think. The ISP
>>>>>> filtering method suggested is probably the best I think- though I
>>>>>> can't
>>>>>> actually do that with the reader I use...
>>>>
>>>> Try the reader that can??
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Even whitelisting seems to be beyond OE's limited scope as a newsreader.
>>>>
>>>> Then don't use it :o)
>>>
>>>We've been down this road.
>>
>> I must have missed it.
>>
>>>My choices in India are OE (or equivalent in
>>>Firefox) or Goggle Gropes.
>>
>> unless you are posting from work (as if), what's to stop you installing
>> the
>> news/mail reader of your choice?
>>
>
>I can only use Web-based newsreaders because there are no NNTP servers to
>connect to. Mixi says lack of NNTP servers suggests a lack of democracy in
>India.
He would!
I think I saw his suggestion that there was a lack of democracy.
So many posts so little memory to store the trivia. :o)
Is the lack of NNTP servers the reason we don't get Indian spam?
Do you have to be in the country where the server is located to use it? I don't
think so. I use both Italian and German news servers amongst others.
>
>My work is my home, and vice versa
OK!
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Martin
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