junk/garbage posts

[wallge]

Whats the deal with these garbage posts in the VHDL news group.
Is there any way these people can be banned ?
I am not sure how this group is administered, but it would be nice if
bogus posts
could be removed...


just my 2 cents

 

[jacko]

Whats the deal with these garbage posts in the VHDL news group.
Is there any way these people can be banned ?
I am not sure how this group is administered, but it would be nice if
bogus posts
could be removed...


just my 2 cents

top posting it multiple is very bad, but then maybe its MI5 showing off
the potential techniques they'll use if you do a pollonium spy on them


cheers

 

[Paul Floyd]

Whats the deal with these garbage posts in the VHDL news group.
Is there any way these people can be banned ?
I am not sure how this group is administered, but it would be nice if
bogus posts
could be removed...

I believe that there are a large number of volunteers that work
diligently at killing spam messages on usenet. So already a large
proportion of the junk/spam is filtered out.

Beyond that, the only answer is moderation. Not really worth it for a 20
post a day newsgroup.

A bientot
Paul
(Not speaking for Mentor Graphics)

 

[Duane Clark]

Whats the deal with these garbage posts in the VHDL news group.
Is there any way these people can be banned ?
I am not sure how this group is administered, but it would be nice if
bogus posts
could be removed...

To a large extent, the number of "garbage posts" you see is determined
by where you are reading usenet news from. How many are you seeing?

Some hosts do a very good job of "filtering", that is, they honor the
cancels that Floyd mentions. Other news hosts do not, or do a poor job.
I have used newsguy (a pay service) and the news server provided by
pacbell/sbc/yahoo (which I think is actually provided by Supernews,
another pay service), and both do an excellent job (IMO) of keeping the
newsgroup clean.

 

[wallge]

google groups
there are a ton of garbage posts today

 

[Duane Clark]

google groups
there are a ton of garbage posts today

Ah.. I took a look over there. A bunch of posts about MI5 persecution...
how relevant Fortunately, they are not showing up on my news server
Maybe someone over at google is spending to much time doing online
shopping for christmas.

 

[ghelbig]

All of these posts are coming from one "free" news server.

Contact them about it; they are the ones allowing it to happen, and
they should have the ability to cancel the posts.