I miss the old alt.coffee

[shane]

Does anyone from the old days still lurk here?

Shane

[b***@com.net]

Post by shane
Does anyone from the old days still lurk here?
Shane

I was here in the old days but very rarely now. There is just no
reason to.

[j***@gmail.com]

Post by shane
Does anyone from the old days still lurk here?
Shane

I am as old as it gets with Maddy Danny Barry J and Mark P have not post here in a decade or more

[Bud Frawley]

Post by j***@gmail.com

Post by shane
Does anyone from the old days still lurk here?
Shane

I am as old as it gets with Maddy Danny Barry J and Mark P have not post here in a decade or more

I'm wearing my old alt.coffee t-shirt that I bought a decade or more
ago. It brings a tear to my eye.

[tom]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:33:53 -0500

Post by Bud Frawley

Post by j***@gmail.com

Post by shane
Does anyone from the old days still lurk here?
Shane

I am as old as it gets with Maddy Danny Barry J and Mark P have not
post here in a decade or more

I'm wearing my old alt.coffee t-shirt that I bought a decade or more
ago. It brings a tear to my eye.

It's so hard to read this newsgroup anymore because the spam to content
ratio is so out of balance. How do you people hide the spam?
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To: tom
-=> tom wrote to alt.coffee <=-

to> It's so hard to read this newsgroup anymore because the spam to content
to> ratio is so out of balance. How do you people hide the spam?

The (n)ext key; I read this newsgroup on my BBS, and there's not a clear way
of determining what's SPAM. I might try limiting the number of groups
crossposted to that I'll allow, see if that cuts down the SPAM.

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[Had Matter]

Post by tom
It's so hard to read this newsgroup anymore because the spam to content
ratio is so out of balance. How do you people hide the spam?

Gnus allows me to score articles based on various header-based criteria
such as Organization, From, Subject, and most beautifully, Xref.
Everything past a certain threshold gets chucked in the bin
automatically. I'm not sure how well-equipped other readers are on that
matter, but I would expect Thunderbird to be capable of basic filtering
as well (it works for mail). I don't see any spam on here whatsoever,
with very few rules in place.

[tom]

On Tue, 25 May 2021 16:01:05 +0200

Post by Had Matter

Post by tom
It's so hard to read this newsgroup anymore because the spam to
content ratio is so out of balance. How do you people hide the
spam?

Gnus allows me to score articles based on various header-based
criteria such as Organization, From, Subject, and most beautifully,
Xref. Everything past a certain threshold gets chucked in the bin
automatically. I'm not sure how well-equipped other readers are on
that matter, but I would expect Thunderbird to be capable of basic
filtering as well (it works for mail). I don't see any spam on here
whatsoever, with very few rules in place.

I am looking for a new newsagent but I'm not sure it's worth learning
Emacs in it's entirety just for a good news agent.

I currently use claws-mail and it's news capabilities really is a turd.
It can't even hide messages because the mail doesn't exist in a local
spool but NNTP is treated much like IMAP.

I'm wondering if there is a mail client where something like
spamassisin or rspamd can be used to do spam/ham scoring such as your
described. Perhaps it's worth running my own INN server?

[meff]

Post by tom
On Tue, 25 May 2021 16:01:05 +0200
I currently use claws-mail and it's news capabilities really is a turd.
It can't even hide messages because the mail doesn't exist in a local
spool but NNTP is treated much like IMAP.

Pam is a graphical newsreader with a Scorefile to help you filter spam out.

[tom]

On Sat, 25 Dec 2021 23:08:50 -0000 (UTC)

Post by meff
Pam is a graphical newsreader with a Scorefile to help you filter spam out.

isn't pam gtk+3? if so i can't use it.

[meff]

Post by tom
isn't pam gtk+3? if so i can't use it.

If you're willing to build from source, you can build Pam with GTK2 only. It
builds using GTK2 out of the box.

[tom]

On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 05:11:31 -0000 (UTC)

Post by meff

Post by tom
isn't pam gtk+3? if so i can't use it.

If you're willing to build from source, you can build Pam with GTK2
only. It builds using GTK2 out of the box.

oh wow, I didn't know that was still an option. Thanks. My distro only
packages the gtk3 built version.

[tom]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:33:53 -0500

Post by Bud Frawley

Post by j***@gmail.com

Post by shane
Does anyone from the old days still lurk here?
Shane

I am as old as it gets with Maddy Danny Barry J and Mark P have not
post here in a decade or more

I'm wearing my old alt.coffee t-shirt that I bought a decade or more
ago. It brings a tear to my eye.

What does your alt.coffee t-shirt look like? Send a pic?

[Xoltx]

Post by shane
Does anyone from the old days still lurk here?
Shane

NO!