On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:58:26 -0400, "SWL-2010"
wrote:

I'm always ready for discussions about Shortwave radio, and all it's
aspects. I would love to be more involved in this group as an on topic
poster. I come by now and again, and to tell the truth, it's very hard to
wade through the spam, the personal conflicts, the name calling, the
childish behavior and the profanity used by a few of the contributors. But,
If you guys are serious about getting back to the purpose of the group, the
wonderful hobby of Shortwave Listening, count me in.

I've been away for a while due to a lack of time to read the
newsgroups, the result of various reasons. Now, I am starting to get
caught up and have returned to find that the noise level does seem to
have gone up in this NG since I last read it regularly, and I'm having
to tweak my killfile a bit to compensate.

Toward that end, may I make a constructive suggestion relative to
wading through the spam, might I suggest that you grab an NNTP client
rather than using Outlook for reading the newsgroups?

These allow you to filter out unwanted posters using a variety of
header fields. Now, many people create filters based on the From:
field and killfile the poster by his/her/its e-mail address. The
problem with that is that those addresses can be spoofed, and so
people trying that approach often experience less than optimal results
because spammers frequently change their posting addresses

I've found that if you filter on the subject line contents, you have
better results. Set up filters that trash anything that contains words
such as - Nike, Paypal, ebay, wholesale, rolex and other frequently
spammed brand names - in the subject line, and after a bit of tweaking
you can get a good NNTP client to remove most of this garbage for you
automatically, almost all of it in fact.

Simply killfiling an e-mail address works for those times when you've
decided that a regular poster who consistently posts from the same
address just doesn't post anything worth reading. Sadly, I've
killfiled a few individuals in some of the groups I'm subscribed to,
but filtering on the subject line proves much more effective for those
who want to peddle fake watches, sneakers, porn, or whatever.

Just my $0.02 worth and here's hoping it helps.

JK