Re: [NTLK] Off-Topic - Newsgroups

From: Paul Nuernberger (pen1_at_spiff.net)
Date: Sun Jul 29 2001 - 22:39:38 EDT


Maybe I'm just catching them too quickly then (I retrieve headers every 5
minutes or so, along with email). I get the message that they were deleted,
but had thought that the headers should have disappeared as well.

> From: Victor Rehorst <victor_at_newtontalk.net>
>
> Or you could use a news server that processes killfiles. (I think that's
> the right term.)
>
> Basicially, when a news admin notices that there are obvious spam messages
> being posted, he adds the message ID to a list of messages that should be
> removed, and this list gets propagated throughout the news servers. I
> read my news through my University's news server, and since we have
> competent admins, I seldom get to see any of this spam.
>

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