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vex wrote:
> Dave Bugg wrote:
>> 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.

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> Agreed. I guess I just felt the need to comment about not seeing the
> amount of spam using the news servers I use, as compared to you. I
> only utilize a couple of high traffic groups. AFB is the lowest
> traffic of the bunch. The higher traffic ones number ~1000msg/day.
>
> About the only time I use my gmail account is to log in to google
> groups, or google analytics, or google maps. But I never post to
> groups from there, I generally use it as an archival search tool.


If you do, let me know via email so I can create an exception that will let
me see your posts :-)
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