Dave wrote:The spam on usenet is something that irritates me as well. I tried creating rules to filter out spam but plenty still got through. I now have only one rule, to filter any subject that doesn't begin with 'Re:' which traps almost all spam. It does filter out the opening message of a thread as well but the relevant parts are usually quoted in the replies. I'm sure there are better ways than this, but it's ok for me.
Hm... If that really works, one could just "restore" the opening messages after an answer was sent - but if everyone did this, noone would ever be able to give an answer, because noone would see any Re:-Postings... Except from Spam-Mails, because the Spammers would learn from that.