From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Townley Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: HBD Ada! Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:07:54 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <43544e0f-340a-4c34-887d-3f333203ed88n@googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:07:55 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c40b6f8d37bdd8b0f65183d583442796"; logging-data="3542233"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18TpPTUAtHZ9B3jdFl6NFBW+g+Uk6VjCQI=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZcsEUmyxhEPxerQdyucpmyO+gGo= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:65906 List-Id: On 11/12/2023 22:05, Jeffrey R.Carter wrote: > On 2023-12-11 14:04, Simon Wright wrote: >> bill writes: >> >>>                                  By the way, what happened >>> to this site. So goes the world I guess. >> >> If you're using Google Groups: sex, betting, and pirate videos. And >> disengagement by Google. >> >> If you're using a real news server (e.g eternal-september, aioe(?)) the >> spam leakage is fairly minor. > > news.eternal-september.org, Thunderbird, and some simple filters, and > it's practically nil. > Eternal September is fine, but I find Thunderbird unusable. Since the latest batch of spam, I have to close it and open again to read anything - multiple times I keep trying others to run under Windoze, but so far no good. Might try a Linux offering - I always have a few raspberry Pis hangins around, as well as a nice fast Ubuntu server -- Chris