Chuck Anderson wrote:
> Okay ... I've had it. I am ready to join the band wagon. I'm willing
> to ignore all information coming from Google groups (on my regular
> Usenet server, not this one) so I can block all of the SPAM and other
> useless postings.
>
> I think it would be great if, ultimately, enough people did this that
> Google realized their attempt to "own" Usenet has put them to shame and
> they find a way to police usage of their entry point (Google Groups), or
> better yet ... return to merely providing an archive as Deja News did
> before they acquired it.

Google won't do anything about it. It's up to the user. See link in my
sig, and for filtering GG posts if you're a TB user, go here:

http://improve-usenet.org/filters_ex2.html

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Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org

Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Chuck Anderson wrote:
>
>> Okay ... I've had it. I am ready to join the band wagon. I'm willing
>> to ignore all information coming from Google groups (on my regular
>> Usenet server, not this one) so I can block all of the SPAM and other
>> useless postings.
>>
>> I think it would be great if, ultimately, enough people did this that
>> Google realized their attempt to "own" Usenet has put them to shame and
>> they find a way to police usage of their entry point (Google Groups), or
>> better yet ... return to merely providing an archive as Deja News did
>> before they acquired it.
>>
>
> Google won't do anything about it. It's up to the user. See link in my
> sig, and for filtering GG posts if you're a TB user, go here:
>
> http://improve-usenet.org/filters_ex2.html

Yep ... I've been to your site. You're a big part of "the band wagon" I
am ready to join. (I catch your posts in a.w.webmasters and c.l.php,
too, I believe. I think you were once at PZ, too ? ... I still am.)

I wish Mozilla would get this feature into a patch of TB2, as the wait
for TB3 is going to be a long one (especially for someone like me who
does not like to upgrade until it appears the kinks are out).

The proxy solution you suggest is not something I want to do at this
point. I read that the TB3 patch was a simple one. I'd like to think it
could make it into TB2.

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Chuck Anderson • Boulder, CO
http://www.CycleTourist.com
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.
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Chuck Anderson wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Chuck Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> Okay ... I've had it. I am ready to join the band wagon. I'm
>>> willing to ignore all information coming from Google groups (on my
>>> regular Usenet server, not this one) so I can block all of the SPAM
>>> and other useless postings.
....
>> http://improve-usenet.org/filters_ex2.html
>
> Yep ... I've been to your site. You're a big part of "the band wagon" I
> am ready to join. (I catch your posts in a.w.webmasters and c.l.php,
> too, I believe. I think you were once at PZ, too ? ... I still am.)

It more or less says TB is "wanting" (to be polite)

>
> I wish Mozilla would get this feature into a patch of TB2, as the wait
> for TB3 is going to be a long one (especially for someone like me who
> does not like to upgrade until it appears the kinks are out).

I'm still wondering how code could be designed that for such similar
functions has such different capabilities. I'm referring to the mail and
news filtering in tb of course. And I'm actively looking to drop use of
tb because of this very issue.