sometime in the recent past posted this:
You must be looking at this thing via something other than Google,
Dan. I guess your newsreader filters out all the copious spam. I
don't know much about newsreaders and i'm not interested enough to
delve into the subject, but from where i'm looking at this place -
groups.google.com - it's quite thoroughly trashed, with regularity
lately.
I just use the news server that my ISP provides - the key might be that you
use Google groups. I cannot control what news my server downloads for me, I
can only mark it read or not read, but have no filters on this group.

The ISP clears it's cache often enough, so old posts come up as 'Expired -
click to remove Expired' and I do, so then my browser only hold the active
ones. The oldest post I've got goes back to 2-19-08 and from then until now,
I have only one Spam on 4-21-08 subject: Mules Shoes.

I use Google as little as I can - ever since they revealed that they keep
dossiers on everybody who uses them and what they search, ostensibly for
marketing purposes, hmmmn? so they can sell it to spammers - maybe that's
your problem?

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