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I'm trying to read comp.lang.javascript. The group seems to be active with decent content, but there is so much spam in there.
Currently I'm reading it via Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/topics).
Is there a way to read this group without the spam?
achristi
Posted 2010-05-14T15:13:09.957
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You may need to use an actual news reader. The one I'm currently using is Xnews, and it's working well in Windows 7, despite its relative age. Having a news reader greatly reduces the spam, and you can still use its killfilter if you need to.
Some information regarding free Usenet servers may be found here.
Isxek
Posted 2010-05-14T15:13:09.957
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I had this thought as well. I installed tin (tin.org), but it doesn't seem to filter spam by default. I'm trying to find out if I can get tin to filter it. Do any of those free servers do the filtering server-side? – achristi – 2010-05-14T15:40:05.753
1I'm using news.aioe.org currently, and about 80-90% of the spam in both rec.arts.int-fiction and rec.games.int-fiction in Google Groups are gone. There's still the occasional spam, but I use the killfilter for that. – Isxek – 2010-05-14T15:59:00.693
OK using news.aioe.org + kill filter seems to be the best solution so far. Thanks! – achristi – 2010-05-14T16:40:19.593
http://xnews.newsguy.com/ link is down – user13107 – 2018-03-08T07:40:32.497
@Isxek Link down.. – Pacerier – 2012-07-04T12:00:12.997
@Pacerier: Just checked, it's not. – Isxek – 2012-07-05T05:59:54.380
@Isxek You linked to http://superuser.com/questions/126051/what-are-some-good-not-too-much-local-spam-and-free-usenet-servers-out-there which is "Page not found"..
– Pacerier – 2012-07-05T12:47:42.227@Pacerier: Sorry, I thought you meant the XNews one. I'm afraid you might have to exercise some Google-fu for free Usenet server links. Here's a link that might help you along: http://www.newsgroupservers.net/free-newsgroup-servers/
– Isxek – 2012-07-06T08:23:36.937
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I don't know really know Usenet reader programs which have an anti-spam feature. What I can recommend you, though, is to give an eye to Stack Overflow, on the "javascript" tag. It is not an answer directly to your question, but it can be a good source of knowledge and support for you, without spam (or when there is, it is quickly deleted).
– Gnoupi – 2010-05-14T15:21:44.857@gnoupi: if you're using an offline reader i wonder if you could hook it up to, say, SpamAssassin, or another external spam filter. seems the Unix-ish readers might support that. – quack quixote – 2010-05-14T17:21:03.927