Newsgroup pollution

Hello

As I understand it, the idea of different newsgroups allows for
specialized question and answer forums. Along with this has evolved the
etiquette of posting, and the "sin" of cross-posting.

Recently, the dBASE newsgroups have suffered from spam posts to ALL of
the groups. Is there any way to stop this cross-posting? If we can't
stop the spam posts, can we at least limit them to a small number of
groups?

Thank you
David Ball
www.ChelseaData.ca

> As I understand it, the idea of different newsgroups allows for
> specialized question and answer forums. Along with this has evolved the
> etiquette of posting, and the "sin" of cross-posting.
>
> Recently, the dBASE newsgroups have suffered from spam posts to ALL of
> the groups. Is there any way to stop this cross-posting? If we can't
> stop the spam posts, can we at least limit them to a small number of
> groups?

We are reviewing our options on filtering.
We ARE deleting new spam daily from all or our newsgroups.
To see this you may have to redownload a newsgroup to see that the spam has 
been deleted
(at least using Outlook Express).

Thanks,
- Marty Kay (dBI) -