John Hall wrote:

> Ken Blake wrote:
>
>> Here's another recommendation for News.individual.net.
>
> And another. It's highly reliable, and its spam filtering is excellent.

And another, but am I the only person to notice an increase in the
number of partial binary yEnc attachments not being blocked recently?

On 30/05/2023 02:38, Paul wrote:
> On 5/29/2023 4:40 PM, Jeff Barnett wrote:
>> On 5/29/2023 9:38 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
>>> I had to re-setup my eternal-september groups on Thunderbird. I've
>>> found them all except the Win-11 one.
>>> Can somebody guide me in?
>> There were similar questions here awhile ago. If I remember correctly,
>> there were claims that E-S did not carry such a group because of the
>> overwhelming amount of SPAM infused into it. That would make the OS
>> and the newsgroup very similar.
>>
>> That prior conversation was because someone (a newsgroup purist I
>> suppose) complained that 11 questions and discussion didn't belong in
>> this 10 group. The responses were that many servers didn't carry the
>> 11 group and that there were perfectly valid technical exchanges here
>> that applied to both OS and possible transitions.
>>
>> I'm an E-S subscriber and wish they would carry it.
>
> Thunderbird/102.11.1  <=== your newly-rewritten USENET client

I'm using 102.11.2

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.11.2/releasenotes

BlockNews carries the group ....... and BN is "cheap as chips"!

https://blocknews.net/

HTH

--
David

In message <kdmoc2Fcaj0U1@mid.individual.net>, Andy Burns
<usenet@andyburns.uk> writes
>John Hall wrote:
>
>> Ken Blake wrote:
>>> Here's another recommendation for News.individual.net.
>> And another. It's highly reliable, and its spam filtering is
>>excellent.
>
>And another, but am I the only person to notice an increase in the
>number of partial binary yEnc attachments not being blocked recently?

I haven't seen any of those. Maybe they are limited to a subset of
groups none of which I take?
--
John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"