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