From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R.Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SPAM Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 12:36:18 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 11:36:18 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ea41c4f61cbbacd2b1f14a3fc33d8144"; logging-data="1299146"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+wzyY5w/pi4arE6Aw0TcH3vl7k7Gi9ktk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:J4cKqcXNynjTgHEWsZtEs2ycwRM= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:65883 List-Id: On 2023-12-07 12:21, ldries46 wrote: > Lately I get a lot of SPAM only in this Newsgroup. I am reading this group via > Mozilla Thunderbird. How can I block this SPAM about 300 till 600 messages a day > or must someone who (say someone who has more privileges do so) If not is there > a better route to read this group and block the SPAM Yes, there is a lot of spam here. With Thunderbird, under Tools, is Message Filters. You can create filters to mark most of it as read and to ignore the thread. If you also set your View=>Threads to Threads with Unread, then you won't see them. -- Jeff Carter "Now look, Col. Batguano, if that really is your name." Dr. Strangelove 31