Re: comp.os.linux.misc = mountains of Spam

On 2009-11-22, Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ferdie wrote:

Hello sirs,


Is this group unused because i'm just seeing spam, tons of spam... =/

I'm a brazilian Linux/BSD user and evangelist and this situation let
me sad.

There's no way to reduce the Spam flow<#>

Maybe I'm lucky but I don't get any spam on this newsgroup.
Probably my ISP takes care of that for me.

From your post's header I was left with the impression you are
accessing this newsgroup through google groups, which is a
notoriously poor usenet service, not only in terms of
accessing it but also in providing an open gateway to
spammers.

Since google groups is mainly an access point for spammers, a
lot of people (especially the more experienced) filter out all
posts made from google groups -- it's a simple and very
effective way to get rid of 99.9% of usenet spam.

If you're posting from google groups, you're being ignored as
spam by a lot of people.

--
Grant

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