On Sat, 08 Sep 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<1189262638.451104.279530@o80g2000hse.googlegroups .com>, Ottavio Caruso wrote:

NOTE: Posting from groups.google.com (or some web-forums) dramatically
reduces the chance of your post being seen. Find a real news server.

>Moe Trin wrote:
>> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
>> <1189104898.984110.53080@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.c om>, ianbrn@gmail.com
wrote:
>>
>> NOTE: Posting from groups.google.com (or some web-forums) dramatically
>> reduces the chance of your post being seen. Find a real news server.

My news reader is configured to include that note when I respond to a
Usenet article posted from groups.google.com.

>Rubbish! Explain that!

1. Point your browser at this group, and read the article "A new reader?
Welcome to comp.os.linux.setup, read this first if you're new here (FAQ)"
specifically section 'iv)'.
2. Point your browser at the Usenet newsgroup 'comp.os.linux.misc' and
note the ~120 articles posted between ~14:00 UTC Friday and ~14:00 UTC
Saturday. I don't know about you, but I fail to see where advertisements
for athletic shoes, pr0n sites, and windoze viruses are exactly related
to Linux.
3. Point your browser at the Usenet newsgroup 'news.software.readers' and
note the discussions there relating to groups.google.com.
4. Point your browser at the Usenet newsgroup 'alt.os.linux' and note the
discussions there relating to groups.google.com.

You are entitled to your own opinion. _ALL_ complaints to
'groups-abuse@google.com' are answered by an ignore-bot, and the abuse
continues. Now, I could (and did) insert rules into my news reader
killfile to block that trash - and the rules got rather excessive.

compton ~]$ grep -vE '^([%\[ ]|Score|$)' /var/spool/slrnpull/score |
cut -d' ' -f1 | sort | uniq -c | column
896 From: 7 Message-ID: 79 Xref:
2 Lines: 282 Subject: 2 ~Subject:
[compton ~]$

So, like many, I've replaced a bunch of rules for the comp.os.linux.misc
newsgroup with one:

Message-ID: googlegroups.com

with the result

comp.os.linux.misc: 110/110 (47 killed)

That was what the download looked like at 14:02 UTC Saturday. You may
find different results. Some have gone so far as to make that a blanket
rule applying to all groups. In my case, I'm only applying the rule to
six groups (out of the 84 I try to at least scan daily). You seem to be
posting from IP space owned by Demon Internet, and they even have their
own news server. For others who aren't as lucky, there are free (as in
"no cost") news servers with better abuse control than google, as well
as a large number of low cost commercial news servers. A fair number
of them even offer 'web' interface if for some bizarre reason that is
the only access you have to the Internet. It's your choice.

Old guy