Finally had to plonk google gorups.

[J. Cliff Dyer]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 12:06 -0400, Steve Holden wrote:
> Mike Driscoll wrote:
> > On Apr 16, 10:09 am, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> >> Mike Driscoll wrote:
> >>> On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <gra... at visi.com> wrote:
> >>>> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam.  In order to try to
> >>>> not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant
> >>>> ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam
> >>>> with subject patterns.  But that's not a battle you can win, so
> >>>> I broke down and joined all the other people that just killfile
> >>>> everything posted via google.groups.
> >>>> AFAICT, if you're a google groups user your posts are not being
> >>>> seen by many/most experienced (read "non-google-group") users.
> >>>> This is mainly the fault of google who has refused to do
> >>>> anything to stem the flood of span that's being sent via Google
> >>>> Groups.
> >>>> --
> >>>> Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow! I would like to
> >>>>                                   at               urinate in an OVULAR,
> >>>>                                visi.com            porcelain pool --
> >>> Yeah, I noticed that Google Groups has really sucked this week. I'm
> >>> using the Google Groups Killfile for Greasemonkey now and it helps a
> >>> lot. I like Google, but my loyalty only goes to far. This is a
> >>> complete lack of customer service.
> >> Unfortunately this means Google groups users are getting exactly the
> >> service they are paying for.
> >>
> >> regards
> >>   Steve
> >> --
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> > 
> > Steve,
> > 
> > My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse
> > c.l.py here. And I haven't been able to get NNTP to work from my home
> > either.
> > 
> > By applying this logic to Python and Linux (or any Open Source
> > product), they shouldn't be used either (since I'm not paying for
> > them).
> > 
> I'm not saying people shouldn't use Google Groups. I'm saying that 
> Google can "justify" providing customer "support" that lives somewhere 
> between zero and extremely crappy by not charging for the service.
> 
> Without tunneling out to an NNTP proxy I don't see what other choice you 
> have.
> 
> regards
>   Steve

You could subscribe via email, and keep your own archive.  If you use an
email client with decent adaptive spam filter (i.e. not outlook), you
won't even notice the spam floating by.

It worked like a charm for me until I switched to digest view :)

-- 
Oook,
J. Cliff Dyer
Carolina Digital Library and Archives
UNC Chapel Hill