Scott Dorsey wrote:
Chuck Harris wrote:
Erekose is probably still there. I have used his services on a number of
occasions.

However, I have seen no sign that RCN filters anything out of their news
feeds.

It's crazy not to, because there is convenient automated software that
does the job for you, and integrates well into the two most popular news
server packages, INN and CNEWS.

As I understand things, it is a "common carrier" sort of thing. If you make
no effort to filter or censor a feed, then you are not responsible for its
content. If RCN were to make an effort to filter out junk like the MI5 stuff,
and other nasties, and they missed some, then they would be open to being sued
for what they missed. It is like the protection the telephone company has
against being sued because of folks that use the telephone to perform illegal
activities.

And because Usenet propagates from site to site, if your server runs
cleanfeed, the benefit is seen by all of the sites downstream of it.
This means the guys they feed are happier too.

I could easily do the same thing by running my news through my spambayes
proxy. But I don't really care enough to bother.

It would be so terribly useful if Mozilla/Firefox/Seamonkey would provide
the same message filter capabilities for news that it does for email.

I have asked them about it but they just get all testy and tell me to do
it myself.

Doesn't it allow simple regexp searches in headers? rn did that twenty-five
years ago. Just kill anything with more than three commas in the Newsgroups:
line.
--scott

No, Mozilla/Thunderbird/Seamonkey doesn't understand regular expressions. They
have never taken the email and newsreader portions very seriously. The best they
can do is to select on a word, or a part of a word... pretty dumb, actually.

-Chuck