[Info-vax] This is for the folks who get comp.os.vms via the Info-VAX mailing list

[Scott Dorsey]

Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2023-12-07, G. <gerry77 at no.spam.mail.com> wrote:
>> Il 06/12/2023 01:33, Subcommandante XDelta ha scritto:
>>
>>> Use a free, quality, NNTP text newsgroup feed such as:
>>> 
>>> https://www.i2pn2.org/
>>> 
>>> https://www.eternal-september.org/
>>
>> FWIW, I read comp.os.vms via Eternal September and it's FULL of spam. I don't 
>> think it makes any difference, anyway I'm reading from Italy.
>>
>
>Eternal September certainly does have some spam even after filtering, but
>it is nowhere near as bad as an unfiltered feed. Compare comp.os.vms via
>ES with the view from Google Groups to see just how much the ES filters
>are removing.

I honestly don't know what ES is like, but I will say that at our site here
they are removing between 2,000 and 5,000 spam messages a day from this group.
Which isn't as many as comp.protocols.time.ntp is getting but it's a lot
more than comp.arch.  All of the spam seems to be coming from a a small
number of Google users, if not a single Google user.  Right now, maybe ten
or twenty spam messages a day are making it through the filters but with
the new nocem configurations that should be improving.
--scott

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