Managing Google Groups headaches
Grant Edwards
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Fri Nov 29 11:17:45 EST 2013
On 2013-11-29, Arif Khokar <akhokar1234 at wvu.edu> wrote:
> On 11/28/2013 1:50 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
>> On 11/28/2013 11:37 AM, rusi wrote:
>
>>> 2. All kinds of people hop onto the list. In addition to genuine ones there are
>>> spammers, trolls, dicks, nuts, philosophers, help-vampires etc etc.
>>
>> What they have in common is usenet. Ditching usenet would solve both
>> problems.
>
> The problem could also be solved through client side filtering (i. e.,
> killfiles). I usually killfile posters who crosspost to unrelated
> groups (which filters 99% of the spam that comes through). I'm sure
> that the usenet/email gateway could be configured to filter such posts
> on the server side so those who read this list via email won't have
> those problems.
>
> The problem with just using email is that it's a bit more difficult to
> browse archived posts to this group. After I subscribed to this group
> (comp.lang.python) using my news client, I could immediately browse
> posts made as far back as April.
You're assuming that Usenet === NNTP. You can point your news client
at gmane.org's NNTP server and get all the benefits of "news" for
regular mailing lists.
--
Grant
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