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  • Re: It's been quite a run

    From pamina58@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 7 03:49:09 2023
    I know this will sound wierd, but is there a possibility there is a reason behind it? To stop conversation on some topic? I don't know about the other boards, but the spamming has almost stopped on rmd...

    Pamela

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  • From Nil@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Dec 8 19:10:48 2023
    On 06 Dec 2023, [email protected] (pamina58) wrote in
    rec.music.beatles:

    I know this will sound wierd, but is there a possibility there is
    a reason behind it? To stop conversation on some topic? I don't
    know about the other boards, but the spamming has almost stopped
    on rmd...

    The only reason the spammers spam is that it's easy, it costs them
    nothing, and there's a slight possibility that they may catch a fish in
    their scam trap. The wider they cast, the better their chances. All it
    takes is one person to take the bait to make it all worthwhile for
    them.

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  • From Nil@21:1/5 to Norbert K on Fri Dec 8 19:03:13 2023
    On 05 Dec 2023, Norbert K <[email protected]> wrote in rec.music.beatles:

    On Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 11:05:18 AM UTC-8, cuppajoe2go
    wrote:
    Been on this board since dinosaurs roamed the earth, well,
    Beatles anyway
    . Rather inglorious end...so it seems.

    People have been proposing ways around the spamming. I'll try at
    least some of them before I give up on the board.

    Starring some good conversations, and then defaulting to "Starred conversations" in Google works.

    If you keep using Google Groups, there's really no defense, since they
    offer no filtering capability and they themselves are the primary
    source of the spam. The best solution is to use a "real" newsreader
    that allows you to create filters/killfiles and to use a "real" Usenet
    service that also tries to filter out spam.

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