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

[Chris Townley]

On 07/12/2023 14:45, Scott Dorsey 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
> 

They are now grumbling on comp.lang.ada

-- 
Chris