Newsgroup death spiral

[Don Pearce]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:39:41 -0500, "Mark Zacharias"
<mark_zacharias@sbclobal.net> wrote:

"Arfa Daily" <arfa.daily@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xp7rt.net> wrote in message
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"Arfa Daily" wrote ...
Although I use Xnews for some of my usenet stuff, I admit that I just
use the newsreader built into OE for text groups like this, and operate
via the news server provided by my ISP. I know many believe anything put
out by MS to be the devil's work, and especially their OE newsreader,
but it is perfectly adequate for reading and posting on groups such as
S.E.R., and above all, it is *very* simple to set up and maintain
filters, using its inbuilt functionality.

Hear, Hear. After trying 8-10 of the most popular newsreader client
applications, I concluded that Outlook Express is still the most user-
friendly and straightforward of them all. Hope I will still be able to
run it on Win7. (Bypassing the whole "Vista" quagmire completely.)


My God !! That's the first time anyone's ever agreed with me on that
particular point !

I guess we'll both get pilloried now for being philistines ...

Arfa



I have used OE and now Windows Mail for a number of years and generally like
them, but I still have trouble figuring how to filter spam effectively using
these programs. I don't think they can block by domain - at least I haven't
found that in the options. I've tried deleting by keyword and that doesn't
seem to help either.

Mark Z.

Use NewsProxy. It sits between your newsreader and the NNTP server and
filters at source. Your newsreader doesn't need to download posts to
examine them.

d

 

[Arfa Daily]

"Mark Zacharias" <mark_zacharias@sbclobal.net> wrote in message
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"Arfa Daily" <arfa.daily@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xp7rt.net> wrote in message
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"Arfa Daily" wrote ...
Although I use Xnews for some of my usenet stuff, I admit that I just
use the newsreader built into OE for text groups like this, and operate
via the news server provided by my ISP. I know many believe anything
put out by MS to be the devil's work, and especially their OE
newsreader, but it is perfectly adequate for reading and posting on
groups such as S.E.R., and above all, it is *very* simple to set up and
maintain filters, using its inbuilt functionality.

Hear, Hear. After trying 8-10 of the most popular newsreader client
applications, I concluded that Outlook Express is still the most user-
friendly and straightforward of them all. Hope I will still be able to
run it on Win7. (Bypassing the whole "Vista" quagmire completely.)


My God !! That's the first time anyone's ever agreed with me on that
particular point !

I guess we'll both get pilloried now for being philistines ...

Arfa



I have used OE and now Windows Mail for a number of years and generally
like them, but I still have trouble figuring how to filter spam
effectively using these programs. I don't think they can block by domain -
at least I haven't found that in the options. I've tried deleting by
keyword and that doesn't seem to help either.

Mark Z.

By "block by domain" do you mean being able to reject anything that comes
from (say) 'gmail.com' or 'googlemail.com' ?

If so, then it's <tools> - <message rules> - <news> and then the rule
stating "where the from line contains (name of the domain or any poster you
want to block)" and the action is set to 'delete'.

When you then enter the newsgroup, and O.E. does its catchup, it will delete
any messages that fall within the rules that you have set up, before they
are ever displayed. Not quite as efficient as Don's method of blocking them
before they ever come down to your machine, but easy to do, and doesn't
involve having any third party proxy software in play.

Arfa