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  • Re: How can we prevent the relentless spam targeting usenet groups?

    From Sn!pe@21:1/5 to Mickey on Tue Aug 29 19:51:07 2023
    Mickey <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Sn!pe wrote:

    I think you must mean "posted using Google's User-Agent G2/1.0" .

    To killfile all From: addresses using " *@gmail.com " means that you
    will be discarding many worthwhile posters. The From: address and
    the User-Agent are ~not~ the same thing.


    I've followed Blinky's advice for years and it seems to work well.
    Filter on Message-ID: googlegroups.com
    Guess it all depends on what headers the news reader can filter on.


    Indeed. RIP, Blinky.

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  • From Mickey@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 29 18:42:40 2023
    Sn!pe wrote:

    I think you must mean "posted using Google's User-Agent G2/1.0" .

    To killfile all From: addresses using " *@gmail.com " means that you
    will be discarding many worthwhile posters. The From: address and
    the User-Agent are ~not~ the same thing.

    I've followed Blinky's advice for years and it seems to work well.
    Filter on Message-ID: googlegroups.com
    Guess it all depends on what headers the news reader can filter on.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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