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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:26:57 -0000, Robert Miles <robertmiles@bellsouthnospam.net> wrote:

>
> "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
> .
> 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

IP address?  What's mine?


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