Re: What is with all the SPAM in comp.arch.embedded?

On Apr 21, 8:25 am, Rich Webb <bbew...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:17:06 -0700 (PDT), vorange

<orange...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Forgive me if the question has been asked before but what is with all
this SPAM coming from some idiot in China? Its totally destroying the
comp.arch.embedded forum.

Is there nothing we can do against this moron?

He's spamming all of my favourite groups.

Many of us have installed local NNTP servers, to which we connect
using the local loopback IP address. The benefit of the local server
is that it has access to, and can filter on, *all* header fields and
(if required) the complete body text. With that in place, it's very
simple to throw out the spam before it gets loaded into your client
news reader.

Most of the spam seems, lately, to be injected via GoogleGroups so I
have a rule-set established to drop anything with googlegroups.com in
the Message-ID field except for specified "whitelisted" users.

On this morning's pull, the server got 246 new postings. Of those, 144
were dropped.

The local server takes a little bit of time to setup but it's worth it
to avoid having to wade through the spam; think of it as NRE. I've
been using Hamsterhttp://www.elbiah.de/hamster/pg/and other folks
are using nfilter (look for a newer version named "NewsProxy")http://www.nfilter.org

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA

If you have to whitelist posters from google groups, how do you see
posts from people who don't post a lot? Will you see my posts?
.

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