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how to read in the newsreader

alister alister.ware at ntlworld.com
Mon Oct 16 05:52:42 EDT 2017 
On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:57:18 +0100, Chris Green wrote:

> Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/15/2017 08:50 PM, Andrew Z wrote:
>> > Gents,
>> >  how do i get this group in a newsreader? The digest i'm getting is
>> >  not
>> > workable for me - i can't reply , can only read the replies from the
>> > members of the group. Or. maybe, it shouldn't be a news reader....
>> > please advise..
>> > 
>> > P.S. Oh the comp.lang.python is a nightmare because of spam...
>> 
>> Regardless of what usenet reader you use, com.lang.python will have the
>> same spam everywhere.  So maybe reading via usenet isn't that useful
>> anyway.
>> 
> The mostly very silly spam is trivial to filter with some very simple
> rules, most newsreaders have easy ways to specify subjects and/or
> senders to ignore.  I have (I think) just three or four rules that
> eliminate just about all the junk.

Although that is the case I ma finding that because of the amount of junk 
in this newsgroup I am rapidly running out of space in /dev/null !



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