Post by scbs29Hello
Over the last few days one of my subscribed newsgroups, microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion, has started downloading
messages with a subject similar to
??????????????? pg slot game ?????????
The text could be other than this,eg pantip, usabet etc in different plaqce in the subject string.
Filtering on sender does not work bacauise it changes.
Can anyone suggest a filter to get rid of them ?
I use Agent 2 on Windows 10 so the Agent Help does not work.
Any advice gratefully received.
TIA
Those subjects look like the spam flood originating from Google Groups.
1. The spam flood from Google Groups should stop on 24 February 2024
when Google Groups stops supporting new Usenet content.
<URL:https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538>
2. Meanwhile, for Agent 2.0, see the post "Filter for Google Groups
Robo Spam" by Joe Gwinn:
<URL:news:***@4ax.com>
<URL:https://groups.google.com/g/alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent/c/ahYi_MNXQT8>
<URL:https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=4711&group=alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent#4711>
Use the filtering for specific words in the subject. The
message-id filter, “ message-id: googlegroups.com ”, will not
work in Agent 2.0 so do not use that. Message-ID filters require
Agent 5.0 or later.
If those are not good enough...
3. If you were to update to Agent 5.0 or later then you could filter
all the Google Groups spam with a simple filter on the message-id
header -- like this:
message-id: googlegroups.com
4. If you cannot upgrade, then use a local use a local proxy to
do filtering on the message-id header.
There is an add-on NFilter which can add filtering to any
newsreader, including filtering on Message-ID.
<URL:http://web.archive.org/web/20080514193524/http://www.nfilter.org/>
[Diagram best viewed in a fixed-pitch font]
( )
+----------+ +---------+ ( Internet ) +----------+
¦ NEWS ¦ ¦ ¦ ( ) ¦ NEWS ¦
¦ READER ¦---->¦ NFilter ¦----------------->¦ SERVER ¦
¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ( ) ¦ ¦
+----------+ +---------+ ( ) +----------+
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Post by scbs29I use Agent 2 on Windows 10 so the Agent Help does not work.
You can use a copy of WinHlp32.exe from Windows XP to open the
Agent 2.0 help file. It just doesn't open from within Agent 2.0.
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Kind regards
Ralph Fox
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