SAA Housecleaning needed

It's really unbelievable that there are some 48,000 posts in SAA most of
which are pure garbage.
Why can't any house cleaning be done? Luckily I can choose how many
downloaded messages I get.

CarboHolic wrote:

It's really unbelievable that there are some 48,000 posts in SAA most of
which are pure garbage.
Why can't any house cleaning be done? Luckily I can choose how many
downloaded messages I get.



48,001

On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:35:40 GMT, "CarboHolic" wrote:

It's really unbelievable that there are some 48,000 posts in SAA most of
which are pure garbage.

Your post hasn't help the statistics, has it?

Looking through the unfiltered messages in my newsreader, it appears that the
vast majority are perfectly topical. I don't see much garbage at all, especially
if you throw away the posts of just a handful of known trolls.

_________________________________________________

Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

CarboHolic:
It's really unbelievable that there are some 48,000 posts in SAA most of
which are pure garbage.

That's your opinion. I read every one of them every day, and I cherish
them all.

Why can't any house cleaning be done?

No cyberdusters?

Luckily I can choose how many downloaded messages I get.

Oh. Then what's the problem? Do these 48,000 posts all exist on
floppies at your house, and are you spending 24/7 popping in floppies
as requests come in?

Davoud

--
usenet *at* davidillig dawt com

Sounds like you don't understand the UseNet newsgroups.
There is no central location where these messages are kept so you have no
single point that you can "repair" the newsgroup. In addition, this is a
nonmoderated group so there is not anybody that can delete improper posts.
As to the 48K posts, that is all that your newsgroup server has at the
moment for the last x number of days in it's memory. There are a lot more
than that that have been posted to the group over the many years that it has
been around.

--
Bob May
Losing weight is easy! If you ever want to lose weight, eat and drink less.
Works every time it is tried!

"Bob May" wrote in message
...
Sounds like you don't understand the UseNet newsgroups.
There is no central location where these messages are kept so you have no
single point that you can "repair" the newsgroup. In addition, this is a
nonmoderated group so there is not anybody that can delete improper posts.
As to the 48K posts, that is all that your newsgroup server has at the
moment for the last x number of days in it's memory. There are a lot more
than that that have been posted to the group over the many years that it
has
been around.


Sounds like my ISP should do the housecleaning.

CarboHolic wrote:

"Bob May" wrote in message
...

Sounds like you don't understand the UseNet newsgroups.
There is no central location where these messages are kept so you have no
single point that you can "repair" the newsgroup. In addition, this is a
nonmoderated group so there is not anybody that can delete improper posts.
As to the 48K posts, that is all that your newsgroup server has at the
moment for the last x number of days in it's memory. There are a lot more
than that that have been posted to the group over the many years that it

has

been around.



Sounds like my ISP should do the housecleaning.


Unsubscribing is really easy.

"Phil Wheeler" wrote in message
...


CarboHolic wrote:

"Bob May" wrote in message
...

Sounds like you don't understand the UseNet newsgroups.
There is no central location where these messages are kept so you have
no
single point that you can "repair" the newsgroup. In addition, this
is a
nonmoderated group so there is not anybody that can delete improper
posts.
As to the 48K posts, that is all that your newsgroup server has at the
moment for the last x number of days in it's memory. There are a lot
more
than that that have been posted to the group over the many years that
it

has

been around.



Sounds like my ISP should do the housecleaning.


Unsubscribing is really easy.
Or just learn to use filter rules on your own newsreader. You can block
senders who annoy you (unfortunately people will in some cases reply to
these, and you then see the replies...), block files over a particular
size (helps to prevent reception of very long 'threaded' conversations, or
binaries that souldn't be on the group anyway), have general rules to
block messages with some 'keywords' present or missing etc. etc..
With such rules carefully set up, over 90% of the 'dross', can be removed,
allowing groups to be viewed in a different 'light'... :-)

Best Wishes

CarboHolic wrote:

"Bob May" wrote in message
...

Sounds like you don't understand the UseNet newsgroups.
There is no central location where these messages are kept so you have no
single point that you can "repair" the newsgroup. In addition, this is a
nonmoderated group so there is not anybody that can delete improper posts.
As to the 48K posts, that is all that your newsgroup server has at the
moment for the last x number of days in it's memory. There are a lot more
than that that have been posted to the group over the many years that it
has been around.

Sounds like my ISP should do the housecleaning.

Not necessary. Are you sure you are not talking about the messages
cached by your newsreader? For example, when on my newsreader the
cache gets to about 20'000 messages I remove the expired messages and
this leaves only around 10'000.

- Alex

"Alexander Avtanski" wrote in message
...

CarboHolic wrote:

"Bob May" wrote in message
...

Sounds like you don't understand the UseNet newsgroups.
There is no central location where these messages are kept so you have
no
single point that you can "repair" the newsgroup. In addition, this is
a
nonmoderated group so there is not anybody that can delete improper
posts.
As to the 48K posts, that is all that your newsgroup server has at the
moment for the last x number of days in it's memory. There are a lot
more
than that that have been posted to the group over the many years that it
has been around.

Sounds like my ISP should do the housecleaning.

Not necessary. Are you sure you are not talking about the messages
cached by your newsreader? For example, when on my newsreader the
cache gets to about 20'000 messages I remove the expired messages and
this leaves only around 10'000.



No, I use message rules with outlook. It always says 48000 not dowloaded
so it is my ISP server.