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

[Dan Cross]

In article <ukslqf$6tb$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>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, is this using Panix's NNTP server? I'm seeing
substantially more spam than that on this end coming through
news.panix.com.

	- Dan C.