James Silverton said:
IMHO, a great deal of Spam, trolling, adolescent vulgarity and sheer
pornography is cross posted in news groups. I would be willing to lose
*all* cross-posted messages. Does anyone know how to do this in
Outlook Express?
Well, what I've seen is just the opposite, that the spam that I've
noticed was multiposted, NOT crossposted. This has each post separate
of the others. This eliminates users from seeing all the replies to the
spam post when sent separately to a slew of newsgroups. Crossposting to
numerous newsgroups might qualify it as abusive and get it automatically
deleted by the news server(s), and also by users' newsreaders. When
ISP's started limiting the number of crossposts, spammers developed
software to multipost one message to thousands of groups. Multiposting
also eliminates bash replies from showing up in the copies of the post
in the other newsgroups; i.e., we might bash a spam post in this
newsgroup but our posts won't show up in the other multiposted copies
and thus keeps each multipost clean of replies made in other newsgroups.
The spam post might accumulate dozens of anti-spam responses across
multiple newsgroups but users will only see a few, if any, of them
within each newsgroup; i.e., arguments and complaints get hidden or
diluted because they are not aggregated under the post across all
newsgroups where the spammer squirted their turds (you only see a few
flies hovering over each turd in each separate newsgroup).
