Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>
>> "Dave Bugg" > wrote
>>
>>> But you keep referring to it as if it makes a difference to me.
>>> Whether these are GG users, Gmail users or spammers who fake
>>> gmail.com doesn't matter one wit, the result is the same.
>>
>> Dave, I've had excellent results by blocking gmail, too.
>> Luckily I can exclude the posters I want to see from that
>> rule as I find out who they are.
>>
>> Blocking gmail does a fine job of cleaning up the spammers, etc.
>
> It does a half-ass job. But as I look at your headers and Dave's, I
> see that this is kind of moot, because your news clients can't - by
> themselves - do the kind of precise filtering it takes to do it
> right, as some more robust readers can.

I don't need to do precise filtering to effectually drop the spam to
acceptable thresholds for me.
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Dave
www.davebbq.com