Re: How to get rid of spam

Yes, that's actually an excellent sampling of the spam. My newsreader won't 
allow me to report but will allow me to block. However, it won't remove the 
post automatically so I deleted them manually. Hopefully, at least future 
postings from these characters won't continue to filter in.

Thanks for the helpful reply.

-- John

"John Pollard"  wrote in message 
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On Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 10:17:12 PM UTC-6, JohnA wrote:
> I seem to be deluged with spam on this list - any one else seeing this?

I assume you're referring to the multiple posts here recently
which clearly do not belong.
Likely folks selling stuff and enamored of themselves,
hoping others will bite and buy.
I've seen a bunch of those recently. A couple of examples:

Subject:  Nh10 Movie Download 720p Kickass 64l
Poster:  Rachell Pjetrovic

Subject:  Bollywood Hd Mp4 Full Movies Downloadl
Poster:  Rosalee Grindstaff

I've seen this in the past, where
there's a storm of such off-topic subjects
from the same "author".

No guarantees the following will help,
but in my experience, in time, it does help.

If you select a discussion (any discussion here),
at the far right in the Subject row are three vertical dots.
Clicking those 3 dots opens a dropdown which has
"Report message as abuse" as an option.
Opening that option provides several types of
"abuse" to choose from. I select "Spam" then "Submit report".

The discussion row then reads,
"This discussion has been hidden because you reported it as abuse".

In the past, quite some time after I reported the abuse
(longer than I would have liked, but Google probably sees a lot of "abuse")
those discussions disappeared from my Newsgroup screen.