[nntp going down in the history books with aol!] was Re: News Reader Question

[Res]

On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:

> Res wrote:
>> You can largely thank google for that,
>
> Most seasoned NNTP-ers that I know have a killfile for googlegroups
> posters - you'll be surprised at how much the NNTP "noise" dies down....

hehehehe, It wouldnt surprise me, on our news server we filter and reject 
all posts from googlegroups, your statement is so very true, the noise 
dropped rather dramatically to (at least in the few groups I read) just
the usual harmless trolls.


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Res

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