No.

Probably.

Chat can be supportive.

We don't all have the same experiences so can't offer sensible answers to
all questions.

I doubt it, perhaps you're expecting too much?

For what it's worth, here it is :-)

Mary

Hi Mark

I get a countless number of those in my email, but not in the newsgroup although
I use the same software for both.

I just checked and there are 6 posts here by you since the beginning of the
year. Those 2 are among them.

I've gotten no porn ads in this newsgroup that I can recall at this moment
although there may have been some. My service does NOT block them, including
vote for Ralph Nader spam.

You received a number of replies on the grapefruit thread. You received 3
replies on "Optical Conclusions" . There doesn't appear to be a problem.

It's all there. Keep in mind that your newsgroup server drops old posts and you
will only find recent posts and that all depends on the retention time for your
server.

Looks like it.

I don't think so.

Here it is!  :-)

Bob

 I've embedded a few comments below at ***s.   I hadn't really thought
about that, but possibly people being 'harvested here' might be contributing
to some periodic drops in posts that occur.  Sometimes various countries
have different Holidays or Schedules than others, so parts of any replies to
some initial questions might not appear for a day or two, when they return
to read the group, after someone does a post here.  Others might be away
from their 'base', so don't reply until they pick up their mail.  (continued
below)

*** The UK.people.support dot epilepsy group used to get the same number of
posts a day as alt.support.ep (about 30-40 each).     It now gets less than
5-10 per *week (last time I subscribed to see).  It was driven down there by
the (supposed)  Network Administrator of all the uk.people.support.*
groups -- who was Re-selling Poster Names to junk sites,  like you noticed
from 'here'.
   This group *is being harvested, as you've seen, often by Robots so any
Neanderthols who DO THAT won't see this comment on their mental dexterity.
(How many Gold Swiss Watches do you Need before you can't see your Arms any
longer?  And Who'd give their Charge Account information to a Troll who says
he's from Utah, when the headers show he's in Asia or Europe? )
  A few that I got or found posted 'here' I used to forward to the Source
Provider, if I found it, with an explanation of where the message was being
posted.   THAT used to get them offline quicker.
**Note though, if  'Sally from Houston' is really APNIC (Asia), 3-4
countries in Europe, or Money Laundry  /Diamond mine Frauds from Africa, you
won't find an ISP who cares to remove them.  (cont'd below--> ) /

G:  So far as I know there's no way to Censor or Remove someone's post once
they put it up.  The length of time it gets displayed might be determined
either on internal settings in your machine? or where ever the switchover
is.  I've occasionally had a flurry of  'new posts' 2 days old show up, but
most times they're close to the time the originator posted it.
**   I find a Sharp rise, in both my Traps (spamkiller or local filters),
from a daily 5-10 if I'm 'quiet' to 40-60.    (This morning I had ~115 that
came in overnight-- about 40% to this address (so from alt.ep or Phishers
reading here) and the rest are being misdirected by my Provider to me, with
just as <exciting> stuff as you are getting.)
    The Adult Materials, if I can locate the source in N.America, I send on
to the Provider, with the Headers of the Source mail, and explain that 'my
kids start up my computer each morning, and they want to know what This
Picture is... What do you suggest *I* Tell them?? "

The fact that **both my kids are Grown and Married now, and don't Live here,
is no concern to a TROLL ENABLER.   The Quickest way to get them to pull
someone offline is to put Fear of their potential loss of business or
appearance in Court or on "Sixty Minutes" (T.V. in the U.S.) as a
Trash-Provider Source.

   I Discard ALL MAILS from *.jp, *.21cn, *.cn, *.kr, *.hk and *.tw  (Don't
forget the Dot after the *)-- Japan, China (2 provider sites), Korea, Hong
Kong and Taiwan.    I wrote them once or twice before I did that and
explained to the Network Providers that **some types of seizures have a
higher than expected Footprint in some parts of Asia, than elsewhere, and
their Trolls were keeping people w. Kids + others from participating if all
of us set those Discards here.  (Those *'s Don't affect anyone's ability to
**Post, even Trash -- here --> just keeps it from getting to personal
Inmail.)

  Above (while I'm off topic anyway), by the way, can ALL be done within
ONE FILTER, and don't need separate ones set up if your system allows
multiple blocks while you set them up.  IF you're not sure if it's catching
any, you can Move Mail to Trash then check the Trash Bin before you log off
(assuming Discard Trash at Sign-off is set).

   We should each have a **Virus Killer Program in-use when posting here,
as we are not immune to harvesting for corrupt reasons too.  ( I have just
(today) received 4  Swen Worms while I was typing this, even though I didn't
have any overnight in all the junk that came in.  I USUALLY get 4-8 after
Posting on alt.ep in the Next Morning's messages.)

If people aren't using Spamkillers, with Worm traps, as part of their
operating systems or added on later, those might also have become infected
AFTER Posting here, if they didn't have some of the exotic Anti Spam stuff
others use. The newer 'worms' go into Address Books on infected computers,
then send mails (And worm copies) to all your Friends, so continue to spread
unless trapped and burned by the software on all the systems they attack.

  Some people set their Inmail to "Discard Inbox at exit", then remember
each time to look through their Mail, and File anything they want to Save,
but skip over mail from people they don't know.  Then the Junk is discarded
when they leave the Inmail, to go on to Groups Lists.  I might eventually
switch to that method./

 WRT junk posting here by robot or (often) by mistake, I used to identify a
source provider about *20% of the time, or I'd identify Subject Titles of
mails I got and Source of the abuse desk to forward junk to, if anyone
wanted to.

  Two people complained that Identifying a Troll as such (since their
systems either didn't display Troll Posts to start with [they said], OR they
considered identifying someone posting, who was posting simultaneously to *5
or more groups, was also 'spam' and they wanted me to quit it.   So I did.
(Anyone doing a 'reply to group' to a message sent to *5-10 groups, without
seeing and deleting the other 9 Groups, has their message and address sent
to all 5-9 Other groups, Whether they're subscribed on those, or not.
That's another way addresses are spread for harvesting.)    /  end rambling
/  G.R.

Hi Mark, I try to keep up to date on the newsgroup by quickly reviewing all the
new posts.  If it's not something I want or need to read I still click the item
so my newsreader accepts that I've read it and only shows me a green mark by
those posts that are new.

Just above this post of yours was one named Sister Handjob 4453 by some unknown
poster.  I didn't even need to read it.  I just do a right click and set the
thread to "Ignore thread".  Then I came to your post and was ready to do the
same thing - ignore the thread - because of your subject line, but then I looked
at who posted it.  Because I recognized your name I went ahead and read your
post.

I don't know if all servers are created equally, but I do notice that some
rejects are getting through just to be rejected by me ;-)

Take care,
Julie

Same thing happens all the time here.  Sometimes my own messages or responses
are missing.  It's an ISP problem.  If you aren't seeing messages, go to google
groups and find our newsgroup.  There is a delay on posting messages in google,
but sometimes that's the only way to see messages that are being dumped by the
ISP.

I don't think so.

I don't think so, at least not from our ISP.  They've gone as long as five days
without messages.  When they do come back, the whole five days of missing posts
is still gone.   It's not entirely the ISP's fault because sometimes they are
overwhelmed with traffic.  .

I'm seeing very few actual porn messages, but we really get a lot of spam e-mail
from newsgroup postings.

Barb

I have also been getting these porn ads on my news server - several per day.