Dave Bugg wrote:

> vex wrote:

> > I haven't noticed many here, either.

> 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.

What would be an almost sure-fire filter with very little collateral
damage would be to block any with gmail in the "author". Spammers don't
usually take time to create a nick for their spam accounts, and just
use the email address again.

I don't think I can get XanaNews to do that. It can filter on stuff in
the From header line, but it's not quite powerful enough to do
sophisticated parsing.

The newsreader is open-source, but written in Delphi. If it were C or
C++, I'd consider hacking it to put in all the features I think it
needs. Perhaps that's a good thing.




Brian


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