Re: Spamers attack Genealogy Newsgroups

From	Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups	soc.genealogy.britain, soc.genealogy.ireland, soc.geneaogy.misc, soc.genealogy.computing, alt.genealogy
Subject	Re: Spamers attack Genealogy Newsgroups
Date	2021-06-08 19:55 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<s9oeff$t11$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 08/06/2021 19:54, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 17:20:57 +0100, Ian Goddard
> <ianng@austonley.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/06/2021 09:18, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>> Spammers have recently attacked several genealogy newsgroups,
>>> intending to hijack them.
> 
>> Easily dealt with.  Don't use mail versions of the groups.  Don't use
>> Google Groups.  Get a Usenet feed - your ISP might bundle this,
>> otherwise there are (or were last time I looked) free options and at
>> worst about a tenner a year - and a reader such as Thunderbird which
>> lets you ignore specific threads.  These spammers seem to repeatedly
>> post to one or two threads.  Ignore those threads and don't see any more
>> of the spam.
> 
> The only time I go to Groogle Groups is to report the spam.
> 
> Unfortuntely they only let you do it one message at a time.
> 
> 

You are wasting your time.

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Graeme Wall
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Spamers attack Genealogy Newsgroups Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2021-06-07 10:18 +0200
  Re: Spamers attack Genealogy Newsgroups Ian Goddard <ianng@austonley.org.uk> - 2021-06-07 17:20 +0100
    Re: Spamers attack Genealogy Newsgroups Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2021-06-08 20:54 +0200
      Re: Spamers attack Genealogy Newsgroups Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2021-06-08 19:55 +0100
    Re: Spamers attack Genealogy Newsgroups Hawk <royalty@iinet.com.au> - 2021-06-11 14:38 +1000

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