* Spam-to-news gateway
@ 2005-12-13 15:23 David Z Maze
2005-12-13 16:21 ` Reiner Steib
2005-12-13 17:59 ` Ian Zimmerman
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From: David Z Maze @ 2005-12-13 15:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
Does anybody send legitimate mail to info-gnus-english@gnu.org? It
appears to me to be an unmonitored mail-to-news gateway, which makes
gnu.emacs.gnus the only newsgroup I read that has substantial spam
(ironic, given that the concept originated in news). spam-stat makes
this a little better, but it's still kind of annoying.
Thanks,
--dzm
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* Re: Spam-to-news gateway
2005-12-13 15:23 Spam-to-news gateway David Z Maze
@ 2005-12-13 16:21 ` Reiner Steib
2005-12-13 17:59 ` Ian Zimmerman
1 sibling, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Reiner Steib @ 2005-12-13 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Tue, Dec 13 2005, David Z Maze wrote:
> Does anybody send legitimate mail to info-gnus-english@gnu.org? It
> appears to me to be an unmonitored mail-to-news gateway, which makes
> gnu.emacs.gnus the only newsgroup I read that has substantial spam
> (ironic, given that the concept originated in news). spam-stat makes
> this a little better, but it's still kind of annoying.
I switched to gmane.emacs.help recently because of the spam.
Other gnu.emacs.* suffer from the same problem, see this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/Pine.LNX.3.96.1051211091856.238A-100000%40acm.acm
Bye, Reiner.
--
,,,
(o o)
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* Re: Spam-to-news gateway
2005-12-13 15:23 Spam-to-news gateway David Z Maze
2005-12-13 16:21 ` Reiner Steib
@ 2005-12-13 17:59 ` Ian Zimmerman
2006-01-06 9:02 ` Sébastien Kirche
2006-01-06 14:12 ` Mark T.B. Carroll
1 sibling, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Ian Zimmerman @ 2005-12-13 17:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: info-gnus-english
On 12/13/05, David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> wrote:
> Does anybody send legitimate mail to info-gnus-english@gnu.org? It
> appears to me to be an unmonitored mail-to-news gateway, which makes
> gnu.emacs.gnus the only newsgroup I read that has substantial spam
> (ironic, given that the concept originated in news). spam-stat makes
> this a little better, but it's still kind of annoying.
But of course, I do. I might reconsider if you tell me of a usable free
usenet server in North America.
--
"Political systems do not deal easily
with long term threats,
even if they have a probability of 100%"
James Schlesinger, a former director of the CIA
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* Re: Spam-to-news gateway
2005-12-13 17:59 ` Ian Zimmerman
@ 2006-01-06 9:02 ` Sébastien Kirche
2006-01-07 3:51 ` nobrowser
` (2 more replies)
2006-01-06 14:12 ` Mark T.B. Carroll
1 sibling, 3 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Sébastien Kirche @ 2006-01-06 9:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
At 18:12 on déc 13 2005, Ian Zimmerman said :
> On 12/13/05, David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> wrote:
> > Does anybody send legitimate mail to info-gnus-english@gnu.org? It
> > appears to me to be an unmonitored mail-to-news gateway, which makes
> > gnu.emacs.gnus the only newsgroup I read that has substantial spam
> > (ironic, given that the concept originated in news). spam-stat makes
> > this a little better, but it's still kind of annoying.
>
> But of course, I do. I might reconsider if you tell me of a usable
> free usenet server in North America.
Did you find such a server ?
I feel very frustrating to see that some days the only posts are some
spam, whilst in the past all messages were very valuable.
Did someone tried to contact the mail-to-new gateway administrator /
abuse ? I think it is either time set up some antispam or to cut that
junk.
--
Sébastien Kirche
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* Re: Spam-to-news gateway
2005-12-13 17:59 ` Ian Zimmerman
2006-01-06 9:02 ` Sébastien Kirche
@ 2006-01-06 14:12 ` Mark T.B. Carroll
2006-01-07 3:52 ` nobrowser
1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Mark T.B. Carroll @ 2006-01-06 14:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
Ian Zimmerman <nobrowser@gmail.com> writes:
> But of course, I do. I might reconsider if you tell me of a usable free
> usenet server in North America.
Can you use this group via quimby.gnus.org?
-- Mark
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* Re: Spam-to-news gateway
2006-01-06 9:02 ` Sébastien Kirche
@ 2006-01-07 3:51 ` nobrowser
2006-01-07 3:55 ` nobrowser
2006-01-15 9:36 ` Fred Chu
2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: nobrowser @ 2006-01-07 3:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
> such a server?
No. It's not like I just started looking. I have given up on
traditional Usenet some time ago.
Now there's another thing I am trying - a free newsserver without
posting rights, with
posting through mail2news@anon.lcs.mit.edu. Unfortunately there's a
problem with that
too, see my latest post here.
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* Re: Spam-to-news gateway
2006-01-06 14:12 ` Mark T.B. Carroll
@ 2006-01-07 3:52 ` nobrowser
0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: nobrowser @ 2006-01-07 3:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
> Can you use this group via quimby.gnus.org?
I don't know about quimby.gnus.org. Is it a nntp server with posting
rights?
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* Re: Spam-to-news gateway
2006-01-06 9:02 ` Sébastien Kirche
2006-01-07 3:51 ` nobrowser
@ 2006-01-07 3:55 ` nobrowser
2006-01-08 13:20 ` David Z Maze
2006-01-15 9:36 ` Fred Chu
2 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: nobrowser @ 2006-01-07 3:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
By the way, I am looking at the group through Google Groups now and the
spam is pretty bad, too.
Does that mean reading through nntp is no better?
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* Re: Spam-to-news gateway
2006-01-07 3:55 ` nobrowser
@ 2006-01-08 13:20 ` David Z Maze
0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: David Z Maze @ 2006-01-08 13:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
nobrowser@gmail.com writes:
> By the way, I am looking at the group through Google Groups now and the
> spam is pretty bad, too.
> Does that mean reading through nntp is no better?
In my current summary buffer, spam beats ham 10 articles to 8 (and 9
threads to 2). The only other unmoderated group I read is
ne.transportation, and that has almost no spam and what it does have
is very arguably topical.
--dzm
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* Re: Spam-to-news gateway
2006-01-06 9:02 ` Sébastien Kirche
2006-01-07 3:51 ` nobrowser
2006-01-07 3:55 ` nobrowser
@ 2006-01-15 9:36 ` Fred Chu
2006-01-15 11:04 ` Sébastien Kirche
2 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Fred Chu @ 2006-01-15 9:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
Sébastien Kirche <sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr.invalid> writes:
> At 18:12 on déc 13 2005, Ian Zimmerman said :
>
>> On 12/13/05, David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> wrote:
>> > Does anybody send legitimate mail to info-gnus-english@gnu.org? It
>> > appears to me to be an unmonitored mail-to-news gateway, which makes
>> > gnu.emacs.gnus the only newsgroup I read that has substantial spam
>> > (ironic, given that the concept originated in news). spam-stat makes
>> > this a little better, but it's still kind of annoying.
>>
>> But of course, I do. I might reconsider if you tell me of a usable
>> free usenet server in North America.
>
> Did you find such a server ?
>
> I feel very frustrating to see that some days the only posts are some
> spam, whilst in the past all messages were very valuable.
>
> Did someone tried to contact the mail-to-new gateway administrator /
> abuse ? I think it is either time set up some antispam or to cut that
> junk.
>
> --
> Sébastien Kirche
Good news~
--
Fred Chu
Post by Gnus with Emacs
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* Re: Spam-to-news gateway
2006-01-15 9:36 ` Fred Chu
@ 2006-01-15 11:04 ` Sébastien Kirche
0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Sébastien Kirche @ 2006-01-15 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
At 10:36 on Jan 15 2006, Fred Chu said :
> Good news~
Huh ?
--
Sébastien Kirche
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