From: vlf@star.enet.dec.com   
      
   Off-topic, yet On-topic.   
      
   Peace and quiet! - Isn't it a bright blessing that comp.os.vms is SPAM   
   free, now that Google has exited the Newsgroups building?   
      
   I use the Eternal September feed for Thunderbird, and also a parallel   
   NewsGroupDirect (NGD) Feed in my venerable Forte Agent, for comparison   
   purposes.   
      
   I disabled all Kill Filters in Agent, to check that there is in fact   
   no SPAM via NGD, since the Eternal September feed does such a good job   
   filtering SPAM.   
      
   I have not detected any differences in the two feeds, and I like to   
   keep my NGD feed, since their retentions go way back.   
      
   Is that other comp.os.vms collegiates experience? - in comp.os.vms and   
   other text discussion newsgroups?   
      
   comp.os.vms is back to pure signal (other than the occasional   
   dickering as to what constitues signal :-) )   
      
   A bright blessing, indeed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)