alt.support.cancer's being flooded with junk messages. It's not just this
newsgoup, others as well.
Come in and post. We're here to support you.
However, I cannot guarantee that your posts might not (also) end up on
other newsgroups.
So, as always, be careful not to reveal private information.

Here's some tips (depending on your news reader view and/or name)
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If you cannot filter, which is hard to since each message has different
headers, just select the first one, hold down the shift key click on the
last one and all those in-between should be highlighted. Then right click
and select mark all read. When you reenter the NG they should be gone.
(however, there's a chance of accidentally filtering out posts that you do
want to read.   So before you "right mouse click", scroll up and double
check the ones you've selected. The topics should tell you, because
they're not typical topics for this newsgroup.  Then scroll back to the
one that's surrounded by lines or somehow hi-lited. That's the one that
should be "right mouse" clicked on.  Then scroll further, in case therr's
groups of others, do the same. Highlight the first and then select the
next last, and right click. (as above).

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Betsy has Outlook Express and here's what she posted on how to:
(I think "glasses" means "watch" for that poster.  I think "slash" means
"mark as read", but not sure, nor what decoded means).

I put the glasses symbol on every name I recognised from this group.
Way too many to label with the crossed slash.
This will work with Outlook Express.
I then combined all the others and decoded and they all appear to be read.

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From me: Just start a new post. However, if the junk posts continue,
you'll still have to do one of the above, since you might have trouble
finding the reply /replies to your post
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