Travel Forum / Destinations / USA and Canada / July 2008

I use Outlook Express as my newsreader and have "Message Rules" that
delete messages with "fill in the blank" in the title or in the body of
the message etc ( you can tweak it). If you too use a newsreader ( as
opposed to web-based), then create the rule ( check the boxes) to:
" Delete ALL messages"
with the word
"CRAP"
in the title.
If/when a new word ( or sender) becomes popular in the spam ( say today
it's SNEAKER), then add it (sneaker) to the rule . Personally I can't
imagine that ANYONE ever clicks to read the message about "
NIKE,JORDAN,SNEAKER, CHEAP". BUT as long as they can post , they will.
When I FIRST set it up, I spent about 10 minutes entering 'words to
delete'. When you first open a newsgroup those will be obvious, and then I
update if I get a new series of titles ( like NIK-E JORD an etc). In this
example you could enter jor* to your rule to purge them all.
I only see that crap on my screen once a month or so. and then I just
highlight them and hit delete key. If they become more prevalent I add a
word or two to my filter.
I have a rule for
"Words in Title"
and another for
"From"
etc.
If you haven't used it,  do a search for
spam ,  rules , OE as newsreader - setup etc

I deleted the name of the Google group by accident, please will sonmeone
repeat it.

Magiel

Why not?

You are aware it is possible to subscribe to more then one newsgroup at
once, right?

Not necessarily true.  Many people participate in a large number of groups.

I look in here on occasion. But if I have specific questions, I also look at
Fodors' US Forum.  Likewise the forums at www.tripadvisor.com seem quite
busy.

Marianne

On 6/30/2008 9:39 AM  Dave Smith plucked Senior Frog's Magic Twanger and
said:

Some gemail senders are legitimate. Doesn't make more sense to filter on
user ID? I've noticed the same user ID posting spam under different  
domains.  By filtering a common domain don't you sort of throw the baby
out with the bath water? Since very little from Taiwan is legit. I find
using partial domains  like "contains com.tw" to eliminate all posts
from Taiwan.  The exception to this rule might be scientific news
groups  where  many  Taiwanese, Japanese, South  Korean, Indian and
Bengali contribute articles those with scientific wish to read.

I use Outlook Express and
Tools - Message Rules ...

Where the Subject line contains:

immigrant    illegal   Britney  baby    bumps    drinks    laws    ie7
santos    currency    america    paypal    amex    acer     bush
gateway    vaio    aopen    clinton    hillary   pedro    evil  mexican
limbaugh    schill    racism    hawaii    Princess    voyager  Edmonton
Pahrump    france    paris    apartment    malta    croatia    iraq
cash    poland    shoot    ukrain    troll   muslim    arab    toshiba
fascist    police    israel    terr    draconian    japan   avertec
disease    french      gay  Xbox    .... ...

Mark as read  ( or DELETE etc)
and
add a new word  as time  goes by.
I never even see those !

Or choose FROM field - up to you.

Just click your rule and MODIFY to add 'that word'.

Often times you'll see 25 messages  that have  BUSH or 'Boycott France'
or  'so and so has a baby bump'  - like I care - so add to your  " delete
it " group .  If already download - then with rules displayed, choose your
group and click APPLY NOW and it will scan all messages for those
words/senders ( words can be in TITLE or in BODY of message - you choose.

Play with it a bit. Once you get the idea - it's easy to add/modify.

On 6/30/2008 11:35 AM  Bert Hyman plucked Senior Frog's Magic Twanger
and said:

For those who don't want to pay an additional fee if your ISP doesn't
have a news server, there are a few free news servers out there if you
look: Terra News - http://www.teranews.com/

Web Page for download of Server Hound a search engine dedicated to
finding free news servers.
http://www.newsbin.com/opennews.htm

An d your suggestion, more specifically, for a "real newsreader" is...?