Re: I miss the old alt.coffee

On Tue, 25 May 2021 16:01:05 +0200
Had Matter <[email protected]> wrote:

> tom <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > It's so hard to read this newsgroup anymore because the spam to
> > content ratio is so out of balance. How do you people hide the
> > spam?  
> 
> Gnus allows me to score articles based on various header-based
> criteria such as Organization, From, Subject, and most beautifully,
> Xref. Everything past a certain threshold gets chucked in the bin
> automatically.  I'm not sure how well-equipped other readers are on
> that matter, but I would expect Thunderbird to be capable of basic
> filtering as well (it works for mail).  I don't see any spam on here
> whatsoever, with very few rules in place.

I am looking for a new newsagent but I'm not sure it's worth learning
Emacs in it's entirety just for a good news agent.

I currently use claws-mail and it's news capabilities really is a turd.
It can't even hide messages because the mail doesn't exist in a local
spool but NNTP is treated much like IMAP.

I'm wondering if there is a mail client where something like
spamassisin or rspamd can be used to do spam/ham scoring such as your
described. Perhaps it's worth running my own INN server?