Re: How to get rid of spam

On 12/12/2023 10:40 PM, JohnA wrote:
> 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 
> news:[email protected]...
> 
> 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.

John, what were the dates of those two? I don't recall seeing those. 
Maybe my NG source Eternal September does a good job filtering?
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- Andrew