Re: Newsgroup filtering with host server software

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in
article <xyhcj.187$L22.146@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Victek wrote:

Another possibility is to use a News Provider that doesn't have their
head up and locked and actually has a real live person (or more) who
monitors what's going on and filters the obvious crap before your
news reader (or news downloading tool) even has a chance to see it.

You're correct that Windows Live Mail has poor filtering capability,
but it's good for Hotmail which is my main reason for using it. I some
other NG readers though, such as Gravity.

Never saw a reason/need for Hotmail. Any mail from a hotmail account is
assumed to be spam as no one would be using it for business, and at work
we simply block access to the IP ranges used by Hotmail (and yahoo, and
gmail, and others). Family/friends know I drop all mail from these kind
of accounts - but then, a lot of them do the same.

Regarding NG servers, I currently use news-byoa.prodigy.net because my
ISP account gives me access, but I would happily switch to a different
server. Do you have a recommendation?

I intentionally don't recommend one provider or another. Partly, this
is because it's a personal choice issue akin to "which is best" (to
which I may respond "I dunno - is Ford better than Chevy?" to get the
idea across). Alternative servers may be free (choose with caution if
you want your posts to be seen, as they may be filtered/ignored by
others if they fail to control of newsgroup abuse from their users -
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/ is a
relatively up to date list), or minimal costs - a lot of people mention
news.individual.net for about US$15 a year, but they are far from the
only one. There are also commercial servers - but these tend to be
more expensive.

You should also consider what you are trying to see in newsgroups. A
number of the free/cheap news servers are text only (no binaries) to
control their costs of bandwidth and data storage. Retentivity (how
long they keep articles) may also be an issue.

Old guy
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