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[NL] In bepaalde groepen zoals alt.sexual.abuse.recovery staat een
ongelooflijke hoeveelheid spam (waarschijnlijk vanwege de letters s-e-x in
de groepsnaam). Dit is bepaald niet de enige zelfhulp-groep die vernield
wordt door spam. Zou Demon spamfilters kunnen installeren, zoals hieronder
beschreven, om dit probleem tegen te gaan? Persoonlijk zou ik dat enorm
waarderen.

[UK] In certain groups including alt.sexual.abuse.recovery there is an
incredible amount of spam (probably because of the letters s-e-x in the
group name). This is definitely not the only support group that is being
destroyed by spam. Could Demon install spam filters, as described below,
in order to combat this problem? Personally I'd appreciate that
tremendously.

- Martijn

>From: bem@news.cmc.net (brian moore)
>Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
>Subject: Spam in this group....
>Date: 24 Nov 1997 19:09:31 GMT
>Organization: Chambers Multimedia Connection
>Message-ID: <65cjdb$88i$1@news.cmc.net>
>Reply-To: bem@news.cmc.net
>
>Is definitely a problem, but there is a simple solution:
>
>   Ask your provider to use spam filters.  There are several publically
>   available filters that do a great job on killing Usenet spam.  They
>   are -free- and do wonders for news in general: the more spam that is
>   killed before being written to disk, the faster the news server runs
>   when it comes to real articles.
>
>If anyone here would like, I'm willing to talk other providers through
>installing cleanfeed or spamhippo, both of which are very good at what
>they do.
>
>You can mail me through anonymous remailers or whatever: I just need to
>know the address of your news admin if you know it (if not, I'll pound
>their web page and look for it or call them).
>
>If you don't want to mail me directly, you can mail your news admin and
>point them to the following sites:
>
>    http://www.stopspam.org/usenet/patches/patches.html
>    http://news.cmc.net/
>    http://spamhippo.zippo.com/
>    http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/antispam.html
>
>The more spam that is dropped on the floor at more places, the slower it
>moves around the 'net, and the better it is for us all.
>
>You don't have to mention ASAR when you write to your news admin.... the
>spam problem affects ALL of Usenet and the various filters available improve
>all of Usenet.  Just tell them that you are tired of the spam in news and
>that you want them to help stop it and point to the above resources as
>tools to help them.
>
>(Simple example: I didn't see a single post from any of the past few posting
>runs of the guy wanting sperm donors...  No doubt the majority of people
>saw far too many of them.  That was several thousand posts I didn't have
>to write to disk, didn't have to feed my peers, didn't have to cancel it
>minutes later and then feed the cancel to my peers: it just ceased to be.
>That savings makes a HUGE difference on a news server.)
>
>-- 
>Brian Moore                      Kill A Spammer For Thor
>Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker