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"Peter Hucker" <none@spam.com> wrote in message 
news:op.umqgb1oy4buhsv@fx62.mshome.net...
> On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:24:36 -0000, Robert Miles 
> <robertmiles@bellsouthnospam.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> "Peeassha" <peaashcha@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:gitqso$rcb$1@news.motzarella.org...
>>>
>>> "Gregory Hall" <greghall@home.fake> wrote in message
>>> news:2eq9bi.mju.17.1@news.alt.net...
>>>>
>>>> <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:ioh4l458rqi4nbhsbcch0b7r8lkhvg0hk7@4ax.com...
>>>>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:12:52 -1000, Habib <Habib@...> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Seeing the same problem in most of the video groups.
>>>>>>Other servers do not seem to be having the same problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> I just checked the Altopia status page on the web and according to it
>>>>> all systems are go and running fine as of today.  Surely there aren't
>>>>> that many uploaders having problems with their newsgroup providers.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Altopia stands head and shoulders above all the others.
>>>>
>>>> Generally you will find the fault lies with the "free newsservers." 
>>>> Taken
>>>> as a whole they are little more than amateur attempts to provide
>>>> professional service and they are lacking more often than not. If you
>>>> want to download binaries you have to pay or else you spend the 
>>>> majority
>>>> of your time frustrated because of incompletes. Even some of the lower
>>>> tier pay servers (octanews comes to mind of late) seem to have chronic
>>>> problems with incompletes as evidenced by posts to their support group.
>>>>
>>>> It's unfortunate that inept, amateur free NSPs have gotten numerous
>>>> enough that they now seem to be giving ALL NSPs a bad name. The good
>>>> folks at NANA and NANU need to look into this problem because if 
>>>> there's
>>>> a case of REAL abuse of the network it's these amateur NSPs wreaking
>>>> havoc with the network while they pretend to be something that actually
>>>> does the job.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Gregory Hall
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> AIOE was certainly the cause of a lot of this with their stupid useless
>>> filters which backfired and loused up everything. Why would they even
>>> consider filtering when usenet is supposed to be an open forum?
>> So you enjoy reading spam and messages from trolls?  Since my newsreader
>> program isn't especially good at filtering out the spammers and trolls 
>> who
>> keep changing their return addresses, I'd prefer to have the newsgroups
>> arrive with them already filtered out.
>>
>> I've already created about 1000 rules to filter out unwanted posts
>> from those who don't keep changing their return addresses.
>>
>> Robert Miles
>
> You assume they only filter what you want them to filter.....
>
> Peter Hucker
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So let those who can afford it also offer an unfiltered option for those
who prefer that.  I'd still prefer an option to have the spam and trolls
filtered out, at no extra charge, for those whose software can't do it.
Or, alternatively, a requirement for all newsreader programs to offer
the option of filtering by IP address of the original poster if that
newsreader is included in anything still being sold, such as Vista, and
also offer the option of importing and exporting the filtering rules so
I can share my filtering rules with anyone with the same opinions of
what to filter out.

Robert Miles