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| How to block spammers in newsgroups |
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Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:30:25 -070 |
I enjoy perusing various newsgroups. There is a great deal of spam
originating from the domain @gmail.com.
How can I use OE6 to block all messages coming from @gmail.com?
I set the filter as follows:
1. Checkmark: Where the From Line contains people
2. Checkmark: Delete it
3. Description: Where the From Line contains @gmail.com
However, this does not work. The @gmail messages keep right on coming.
What am I doing wrong? I cannot show the complete FROM address because there
are thousands of spammers. The only thing they have in common is that they
send their spam from (variousnames)@gmail.com
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Walter
www.rationality.net
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| Re: How to block spammers in newsgroups |
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Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:43:40 -070 |
To block a GMail domain, create a News Message Rule:
Where the from line contains people
Delete it and Stop processing more rules
Click on Contains People and Add the domain @gmail.com
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA
"Walter R." <wer25@example.com> wrote in message
news:OVz97ddnIHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>I enjoy perusing various newsgroups. There is a great deal of spam
>originating from the domain @gmail.com.
>
> How can I use OE6 to block all messages coming from @gmail.com?
>
> I set the filter as follows:
>
> 1. Checkmark: Where the From Line contains people
> 2. Checkmark: Delete it
> 3. Description: Where the From Line contains @gmail.com
>
> However, this does not work. The @gmail messages keep right on coming.
>
> What am I doing wrong? I cannot show the complete FROM address because
> there are thousands of spammers. The only thing they have in common is
> that they send their spam from (variousnames)@gmail.com
> --
> Walter
> www.rationality.net
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| Re: How to block spammers in newsgroups |
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Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:33:56 -050 |
Bruce Hagen wrote:
> To block a GMail domain, create a News Message Rule:
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> Where the from line contains people
> Delete it and Stop processing more rules
> Click on Contains People and Add the domain @gmail.com
There are a LOT more Gmail users than there are Google Grouping
spammers. While blocking on "googlegroups" in the Message-ID header
will get rid of a LOT of spam along with some Gmail users, my
perspective is that there is a lot of legitimate non-spamming Gmail
users posting through newsreaders to NNTP servers. Unfortunately,
Walter is using a newsreader that cannot test on the Message-ID header
and he probably doesn't want to bother setting up NewsProxy to do the
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