This is uk.culture.nostalgia.1980s right , not uk.culture.nostalgia.
1940s ?
So why is there so much spam?

I'd really like to see a group of people with wa-ay two much time on
their hands take the time
to 'clean' groups like this. The problem is that Google Groups seems
to archive the junk along with
the genuine, and doesn't want to know unless MANY people complain :
( ...

Farlie A  wrote:
> This is uk.culture.nostalgia.1980s right , not uk.culture.nostalgia.
> 1940s ?
> So why is there so much spam?

There is no spam. Not if you use a proper news server anyway.
 
> I'd really like to see a group of people with wa-ay two much time on
> their hands take the time
> to 'clean' groups like this. The problem is that Google Groups seems
> to archive the junk along with
> the genuine, and doesn't want to know unless MANY people complain :
> ( ...

Oh, another genius post from farlie, eh?
How would you propose someone "take time to 'clean' a newsgroup"?
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On Oct 2, 12:24 am, spi...@freenet.co.uk wrote:
> Farlie A  wrote:
> > This is uk.culture.nostalgia.1980s right , not uk.culture.nostalgia.
> > 1940s ?
> > So why is there so much spam?
>
> There is no spam. Not if you use a proper news server anyway.
>
> > I'd really like to see a group of people with wa-ay two much time on
> > their hands take the time
> > to 'clean' groups like this. The problem is that Google Groups seems
> > to archive the junk along with
> > the genuine, and doesn't want to know unless MANY people complain :
> > ( ...
>
> Oh, another genius post from farlie, eh?
> How would you propose someone "take time to 'clean' a newsgroup"?
> --

By reporting all the spam (for which Google Groups provides a link).

Farlie A  wrote:
> By reporting all the spam (for which Google Groups provides a link).
> 
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...

And that's got a really high success record...
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