"Default User" > wrote in message
...
> 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.
>
>

I have very good luck running a single filter looking for any exclamation
points in the subject line. It gets most of them.



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