Sick of trolls! 3727

I suppose. I use a filter on the news downloading tool (slrnpull), and after downloading is through, the script runs a find through the new articles and greps for a few terms that I buttociate with spam, or spam posters. That removes a few more useless articles, and then the newsreader itself has it's own killfile, for headers that the The result is a pretty clean feed.

Yeah, I probably should change the quoting reference line as you have to "In $NEWSGROUP, $PERSON ". Shouldn't be that hard, it's just finding the time.

If you haven't restricted your posts in some manner, I suspect they can include the material. I vaguely remember that some time ago, one or more of the regulars in one of the comp.os.linux.* groups got into a snit over some web service - I can't remember if this was over posting attributions, or what, but he started adding a line in his .sig that specifically prohibited the web service from copying, archiving or what-ever his posts. I don't know how that would stand up in court, but it apparently solved the problem, as I no longer see that .sig.

I'm pretty sure that's the reason. As mentioned up-thread, there are a huge number of Linux related newsgroups out there - giganews lists 1108, supernews had 470 - I don't think the forums are really going to add much, and they're scrambling for a limited readership. This also ignores the distribution specific mailing lists - some of which are mirrored into Usenet groups. "linux.redhat.*" started out as mirrors of the Red Hat mailing lists - a Dutch server acted as a mailing-list to news portal. As they were one-way mirrors, some news servers had them marked as 'Moderated' meaning that you couldn't post to them. That fell to the wayside, in the news server DSWs. Hmmm, just found another old .newsrc file - this one from slurp.com (kcdata.com) which had 379 Linux groups in July 1998.

Old guy