Re: Lots of spam in this newsgroup!

On May 31, 11:06 am, "Larry W. Virden" <lvir...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 31, 4:38 am, EL <eckhardnos...@xxxxxx> wrote:

has anybody an idea what can be done against this increasing amount of
spam here recently?

It all depends on how you access this web site. Nothing much
apparently can be done if you, like I, are using google groups to
access the info.

Not quite. If you're using google groups with FireFox, see

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/tree/browse_frm/thread/855ac73ff07116f5/0cf305f7339ef40d?rnum=1&q=greasemonkey&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.lang.tcl%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F855ac73ff07116f5%2F9a0e495498e16422%3Flnk%3Dgst%26q%3Dgreasemonkey%26#doc_91aac5599fa996f3

-Alex
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