James wrote to grusl on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:23:53 GMT:
g>> "David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)"
g>> wrote in message
JS> 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. 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...
??>>>
g>> Even whitelisting seems to be beyond OE's limited scope as
g>> a newsreader.
JS> Not quite true if "whitelisting" means putting on a list of
JS> those to be expected. It is necessary to end the rule with
JS> Stop processing more rules.
Sorry, the malicious spell checker strikes again! I think I
misspelled "accepted" and one of the choices for change was
"expected".
James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.venison.not
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