"Bob Kuykendall" wrote in message
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If you're reading RAS with Google, they have made it generally easier
to report spam. Just click on the "Report Spam" link at the bottom of
the window.

....and then absolutly nothing will happen, but at least you will feel like you
have done your part. ;-) On the Usenet, Google is the PROBLEM, not the
solution. Google serves as the biggest & most reliable superhighway for
spammers and trolls to access Usenet.

I use eternal-september.org for free Usenet access along with the Outlet Express
program that came shipped in my compter. Eternal-September seems to have great
spam filtering so I see only a fraction of the spam that appears on Google, plus
OE lets me easily filter out the trolls. Why would you do it any other way?
Dump Google Groups!

Vaughn



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Nothing personal, but if you are posting through Google Groups I may not receive
your message. Google refuses to control the flood of spam messages originating
in their system, so on any given day I may or may not have Google blocked. Try
a real NNTP server & news reader program and you will never go back. All you
need is access to an NNTP server (AKA "news server") and a news reader program.
You probably already have a news reader program in your computer (Hint: Outlook
Express). Assuming that your Usenet needs are modest,
usehttp://www.eternal-september.org/ and/or, http://news.aioe.org/ and/or
https://www.x-privat.org/index.php for free. http://www.teranews.com/ charges a
one-time $3.95 setup fee. Newsguy,
http://www.newsguy.com/ offers a variety of reasonably priced services. If you
wish to experiment with real Usenet access, they will give you a free 2-day
trial account. http://www.cnntp.org/ provides vari