From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , Keith Nuttle   
    writes:   
   >On 5/18/2018 7:39 AM, MB wrote:   
   >> On 18/05/2018 10:08, david1940 wrote:   
   >>> On 13/05/2018 19:26, Chris Dickinson wrote:   
   >>>> Well, whatever Google (or whoever) may have tried to do in the last   
   >>>>72 hours, the situation is now much worse (from the point of view of   
   >>>>a Google Groups user).   
   >>>>   
   >>> I am using Thunderbird to read these messages and had managed to   
   >>>filter out the spam containing certain words.   
   >>> However although the filters are in place they no longer work and   
   >>>I'm  fed up deleting threads and messages.   
   >>> Does anyone have solution?   
   >>  I must have filtered out many genuine USENET users who have posted   
   >>replies to SPAMmers when I have blocked their EMail address with the   
   >>SPAMmers.   
   >>   
   >The problem with using email addresses is that the spammers keep change   
   >their email address.  I find I get better results filtering on words.   
   >   
   Filtering on the word "girls" would I think kill most of these. I'd   
   rather not, in case a genuine thread contained the word. (I can't ATM   
   think of a genealogy one that might, but it could. [And please don't   
   post examples!])   
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   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   Wisdom is the ability to cope. - the late (AB of C) Michael Ramsey,   
   quoted by Stephen Fry (RT 24-30 August 2013)   
      
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