[sdiy] I remember my hesitation at using Usenet groups: SPAM

[Andre Majorel]

On 2008-05-08 15:55 -0400, anthony wrote:

> Well I was using google news groups, but I think I'll use trn if
> there's a version of it for Windows XP.

Yes, better use a real news reader. Many newsgroups appear to be
buried in spam when read via groups.google.com but nearly
spam-free via a real news server. For some reason, Google are
mind-bogglingly bad at filtering newsgroup spam.

> The last time I used Usenet it was from one of my old Linux (Red
> Hat 6.1) machines.

Or you could log into the same RH 6.1 and run trn from there.

Sincerely yours, writing this email sitting at an Athlon 64, ssh'd
into a C3 running Mutt inside screen, ~/Mail being NFS-mounted
from a Duron.

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