On 2021-09-30 17:17:08 Carlos E. R. wrote:
|El 2021-09-30 a las 17:01 -0500, J Leslie Turriff escribió: |> On 2021-09-30 05:06:27 Carlos E. R. wrote: |>> |at news:alt.folklore.computers or news:sci.crypt |>> | |>> |If you don't have an nntp client set up, you can see it here: |>> | |>> |https://groups.google.com/g/alt.folklore.computers/c/VM5_IvSR6gw |> |> I have poked around there off and on, but the biggest issue for me was |> managing spam. The filtering mechanism's workings are pretty much |> opaque; I can let everything through or block everything, but I haven't |> figured out how to get any granularity between 1 and 0. :-) | |On nntp, there is basically no spam filtering as in email. | |It is possible for admins to delete posts, or to block someone, but this |takes much time and they don't like it, so it is only done very limitedly. | |On clients like Thunderbird you can create your own filters, based on |simple filters, like killfile a poster, if he uses always the same name. |or you can manually kill a thread or a subthread. Not much you can do. | |Spam proper there is few. Trolls, there are many. You learn to know them.
Yes, killfiles is what I was thinking of; but I don't understand how to set them up. Leslie -- Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64