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   Steve Hayes to ianng@austonley.org.uk   
   Re: Spamers attack Genealogy Newsgroups   
   08 Jun 21 20:54:16   
   
   XPost: soc.genealogy.ireland, soc.geneaogy.misc, soc.genealogy.computing   
   XPost: alt.genealogy   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 17:20:57 +0100, Ian Goddard   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 07/06/2021 09:18, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> Spammers have recently attacked several genealogy newsgroups,   
   >> intending to hijack them.   
      
   >Easily dealt with.  Don't use mail versions of the groups.  Don't use   
   >Google Groups.  Get a Usenet feed - your ISP might bundle this,   
   >otherwise there are (or were last time I looked) free options and at   
   >worst about a tenner a year - and a reader such as Thunderbird which   
   >lets you ignore specific threads.  These spammers seem to repeatedly   
   >post to one or two threads.  Ignore those threads and don't see any more   
   >of the spam.   
      
   The only time I go to Groogle Groups is to report the spam.   
      
   Unfortuntely they only let you do it one message at a time.   
      
      
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