Re: Why?

"rickman" <gnuarm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9abd3c90-3d83-48c6-942d-1b7b77b82dbf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I don't get it. What is the motivation to causing the newsgroups to
be flooded with these nonsense messages? Is this one of those things
where people do it because they can?

This periodic flood is making this group nearly worthless to me. It
is hard to find the threads in the midst of the debris and it can be
even harder to find valid messages withing a thread.

I assume there are no solutions to this, right? Or is there a way to
filter out the nonsense?

Like I have said before - I don't normally see an unusual amount of spam at
all. In fact, all I really see is the blogspot spam and the occasional
religious entry.

I don't know where the spam is getting filtered. It may be at the ISP, or
alternatively it may be in my new reader which is Outlook Express.

When I click on comp.arch.embedded I occasionally fleetingly see the number
of unread messages as being very high, but then immediately drop down to a
sensible number. This would seem to indicate the filtering was being done
by the news reader.

On the other hand, the one time I did get caught by a flood of spam, when I
turned my computer on the next morning clicking on one of the spam messages
brought up an error message saying the message was no longer present on the
server. This would see to indicate that the filtering was being done on the
server and I was unlucky enough to download the messages between them
arriving on the server and the servers binning them.

In any case, there must a solution for you I just don't know if its changing
client or server.

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