Re: Spam on the increase?

sheldonlg schreef:
What is happening here. It seems that there is about a 100-fold increase in the spam messages appearing here compared to just a few months ago. Is there a way for the server(s) to filter out the span? Does it depend on your newsgroup provided? (I did switch to Giganews a few months ago. I was with earthlink before.).

Hi,

ordb.org stopped last week, a site that holded domainnames that sent a lot of spam.
That was announced in 2006 or something.

That is the reason I see see an increase in spam, less filtering.
Maybe you (or your provider) used ordb.org too?
If you used another spamfilteringsystem, I don't know.

Regards,
Erwin Moller
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