From: coghlan@sympatico.ca 
  
 Terry wrote: 
  
 > "Comboman"  wrote in message 
 > news:h1b5b0plvcjusluf0lfhnd2igm5n8vluit@4ax.com... 
 > 
 > Thanks for the excellent comments/suggestions. 
 > BTW I did at one point in the past get a response from the 'sponsor' of 
 this 
 > news group, saying that it was being looked at! 
 > Not much has happened! 
  
 Au contraire.  I'm the one who created this newsgroup, and I've been firing 
 off 
 complaints to the source of all spam postings for the past few months.  It 
 seems 
 to finally be paying off, with very few postings from the biggest offenders 
 (ozemail.com.au, rr.com etc.). 
  
 > I checked a UK consumer news group this morning, of it's latest 20 posts 
 > three (3) were spam/advertising etc. That's just taking the main topics of 
 > the threads not all the sub-answers replies or comments to each main topic 
 > posting. Quite a difference in usefulness. 
 > My regards. 
 > 
 > 
  
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