On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:22:22 +0200, Martin Hotze
wrote in :

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:46:12 GMT, Larry Dighera wrote:

hope this helps,

That is mighty generous of your Martin.

thanks :-)

I hope it makes those who post through Google-Groups stop supporting
that source of Usenet spam.

.. but after 1 week now I come to the conclusion that the level of pain
must still be too low. No one - up to now - was interested in this free
offer for usenet access. hmmm.

Those users who choose to use GoogleGroups to access Usenet are
probably intimidated by the necessity to reconfigure their news reader
client software, and there's always the religious devotion to what
they have already learned, and the resistance to change...

I guess it's still September. :-(

btw: we are also close to the solution for a filter for an unnamed poster
here. This *beep* *censored* §$&%"$§cleanfeed!"§§%&%§!! ;-)

#m

While I understand the desire to filter out noise, I personally prefer
the egalitarian aspect of Usenet be preserved, and the temptation of
censorship be resisted. Perhaps that "cleanfeed" could be made a user
configurable option, so people have a choice of a censored feed or
not.

Perhaps posting explicit instructions on how to obtain a Usenet/nntp
feed and using capital letters to spell out the word F R E E would
help wean folks away from supporting GoogleGroups. Just a thought....

I applaud your philanthropic effort to lead them to water.