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!

You're right. A lotta' junk posts in here. Out you GO!

PLONK!

--
Jan Owen

To reach me directly, remove the Z, if one appears in my e-mail address...
Latitude: 33.662
Longitude: -112.3272

"CarboHolic" wrote in message
news:MRIZc.60609$jZ5.48134@clgrps13...
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.

In message MRIZc.60609$jZ5.48134@clgrps13, CarboHolic
writes
It's really unbelievable that there are some 48,000 posts in SAA most of
which are pure garbage.

I see fewer than 1000 posts in the past week, and mostly on topic.
Although I suspect my news server of losing a few messages I doubt if it
is all that wide of the mark. Your server may have a years worth of
articles or be defective.

Why can't any house cleaning be done? Luckily I can choose how many
downloaded messages I get.

I don't see any obvious evidence of hip crime style flooding attacks
against s.a.a though a few other Usenet groups that I subscribe to have
previously taken hits running at 20000 posts/hour until the miscreants
were terminated. The junk posts usually persist for a few hours until
third party bulk cancels catch up with the garbage. If you are unlucky
you may see them.

If you are seeing huge numbers of persistent but obviously random dross
posts in s.a.a it is time to beat up on *your* ISP's newsmaster. It
looks OK from here.

Regards,
--
Martin Brown

"Jan Owen" uttered the magic word:

PLONK!

And from out of nowhere appeared!:

http://tinyurl.com/669js

HTH?
Chris.B

"Jan Owen" wrote in message
news:B5LZc.192724$sh.168332@fed1read06...
You're right. A lotta' junk posts in here. Out you GO!

PLONK!

--
Jan Owen


You're a mean spirited goof

"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.