vex wrote:
> Dave Bugg wrote:
>> Gmail spammers have so loaded down usenet with junk spam that I've
>> decided to block the domain. There are several of you that I really
>> enjoy reading, like Om and HeyBub, who use Gmail and whose posts I
>> will miss (guys, please switch).
>>
>> Hotmail and Yahoo have very few spam originators compared to Gmail.
>> The sheer volume of Gmail spammers have just become too unwieldy to
>> block on an individual basis.
>
>
> I haven't noticed many here, either. From *any* domain. And I don't
> use a lot of filters. Maybe there's a filter upriver at one of the
> ISPs that serve up this group to my ISP or something...

An individual newsgroup may not receive much, if any, spam. But there are a
number of very hi-traffic newgroups which do. I do not consider AFB to be
either hi-traffic or problematic with spam. But blocking the gmail domain
name is not done by newsgroups, it is done universally. The unhappy
side-effect of doing so is that it puts the innocent into the same gulag as
the guilty, regardless of newsgroup.
--
Dave
www.davebbq.com