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> I've got to commend you in your relentless fight against spammers in
> this newsgroup. :)
Too bad the multi-posting spammers
a) don't read the responses, and
b) don't p*ss off.
But it sure is fun to excoriate them in absentia.
-- Lew
"Joe Attardi" <jattardi@gmail.com> wrote in news:1174737929.364803.34770
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> I've got to commend you in your relentless fight against spammers in
> this newsgroup. :)
I would too, except for the facts that:
1. 99.5 percent of the spammers never read replies to their postings, so
these responses are wasted.
2. Andrew's replies expose those of us who have effective killfiles to parts
of the spam that our killfiles had eliminated (unless we want to also
killfile Andrew, which I don't!).
Cheers
GRB

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Andrew Thompson - 25 Mar 2007 04:33 GMT
On Mar 25, 5:27 am, "Greg R. Broderick" <gregb
+usenet200...@blackholio.dyndns.org> wrote:
..
> 1. 99.5 percent of the spammers never read replies to their postings, so
> these responses are wasted.
As odd as this may seem. My comments are not
actually meant for the spammer themselves.
> 2. Andrew's replies expose those of us who have effective killfiles to parts
> of the spam that our killfiles had eliminated (unless we want to also
> killfile Andrew, which I don't!).
Good point, and something I have been meaning
to check. If I were to put an unique key phrase
in the second post to each spam, does your news reader
offer the ability to filter the *entire* *thread*
based on that?
Andrew T.
Chris Uppal - 25 Mar 2007 09:52 GMT
> > 2. Andrew's replies expose those of us who have effective killfiles to
> > parts of the spam that our killfiles had eliminated (unless we want to
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> to check. If I were to put an unique key phrase
> in the second post to each spam,
Does the expression "P*ss off" not already suffice for that purpose ?
-- chris
Andrew Thompson - 25 Mar 2007 10:12 GMT
On Mar 25, 6:52 pm, "Chris Uppal" <chris.up...@metagnostic.REMOVE-
THIS.org> wrote:
> > > 2. Andrew's replies expose those of us who have effective killfiles to
> > > parts of the spam that our killfiles had eliminated (unless we want to
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>
> Does the expression "P*ss off" not already suffice for that purpose ?
;-) I use that expression 'regularly' on
such posts, but (so far) not every time.
I am also a bit worried about the exact
string, as I would not want to cause others
to 'pAss off' any thread without good cause,
and I think the inclusion of the 'wildcard'
character might cause problems there.
To be more specific, I would want any
filter to be a longish and very unusual
acronym (maybe?) consisting entirely of
letters.
Andrew T.