John Gaquin wrote:
wrote in message

Geez, is there any way that this crap can be banned from the newsgroup?

Sure, just repeal the First Amendment. Keep us posted.

I was more thinking along the lines of banning spammers. Whether a
newsgroup can so ban is entirely beyond my sphere of understanding.

Ah well, as Chthonic once opined, one never went broke underestimating
the stupidity of the human race.

Henrysun909

kirjoitti:

I was more thinking along the lines of banning spammers. Whether a
newsgroup can so ban is entirely beyond my sphere of understanding.

Banning would mean that every (most?) news servers would need to apply
the global killlist. It would hit performance and be very difficult to
administer (eg. who has the power to compile the killlist in the first
place?).

What you can do with most news readers is add spammers to your local
killfile.

Or then look for telltale signs that a thread is spam:
1. Use of exclamation mark in the topic line
2. No clear, explicit, exact topic stated in topic line
etc...

PS. Follow-ups go *only* to rec. boats.

Risto