Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / June 2004

It's quite sickening...

"Kate" <katygray@xtra.co.nz> wrote in news:JqLCc.3735$LT3.142972
@news.xtra.co.nz:

Well, Rat's just love Spam - I'm sure they'd eat it all up for you. Mind
you, Fat and Protein content are probably a little too high...

I'm not seeing any spam using blueyonder's news server, I think they filter
obvious ones out from the source feed, here's a few rules you can add to the
list of blocked senders:
in outlook express, go to tools>message rules>news.
You will see a double box, the upper deals with spam, the lower one what to
do when it's detected.
in the upper box, you will see 'where the message is on a particular
group' - put a tick in this and choose whichever groups you want to apply it
to from the popup list.

in the box below it is 'if the subject contains specific words' - tick this
and add the words, one by one which you think may appear in spam messages,
'nude' is a favourite, but not practical if you frequent adult groups!
also Britney, sunbathing, topless, etc etc  - when you've put in whatever
words you want to block, click ok.

Then in the lower box, click 'delete' - this way, if anyone posts a topic in
here with your chosen spam filtered words in the title, your news reader
will not display them.
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If you are seeing many spam posts from the same person, simply open one, go
to message>block sender, you will never see another post from that person
again.

HTH