Excessive spam all of a sudden

You notice the "senders" all start with "a", and totally different addresses. Aggravating, you betcha!

Gillian

NOt at all nettiquette to reply to oneself, but I glanced at RCTMarketplace, and the "A"s are there too.....

They are everywhere, but that's good because they are in the process of taking them out now.

They all come from an organization called usenetmonster (you can see it if you expand the headers). They are being posted to nearly every newsgroup (or usenet). I know there have been complaints sent, but I don't think it will do much good, since I think it is a robot program designed to spam newsgroups - just looking at the name 'usenet monster'. The e-mails addresses showing are either fictitious or have been stolen. Once they get through the 'a' list, we'll start seeing 'b'.

There are too many of them to create filters by address, but I'm creating filters from the major subject (vacuums,etc.), which will get rid of a few (admittedly a very few). Otherwise, I'm doing what Bruce is doing - highlighting them as a group and marking them read.

MargW

They have also hit rec. craft. Beads. At the moment there is very little bead posts going on there, much to my dismay.

I just remove them and sometimes kill file them. Shirley

In message , Shirley Shone writes

Sorry to follow my own post but it looks as if I were removing the bead posts. I meant the spam. Well what can I expect at 6.30 am and senior moments. VBG Shirley

I meant to wave last time I saw you post there.

I'll post there later today...

Cheryl

I wondered what you were all talking about until I went over to Google Groups. Mozilla Thunderbird seems to do an excellent job of screening out these things (but it occasionally drops real messages as well). However, recently I had my laptop "fixed" by a local computer shop, because I didn't think I had time to do it myself. Wrong move. It took me longer to fix it my self after I got it back than it would have to have cleaned up the hard drive myself, with lots of coaching from various websites, that is. Anyway, I am having trouble getting Thunderbird to work properly on that computer, so if I want to use it to read these groups, I have to go through Google. What a mess. Much more advertising than real messages. You all should probably complain to your own ISP or newsreader about them letting these posts through. If Thunderbird can stop them, so can the others.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Sorry, gotta correct myself here. Thunderbird is just the vehicle, it is Motzarella which brings in the messages, and screens out the SPAM.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.