Erwin Moller schreef:
> sheldonlg schreef:
>> What is happening here. It seems that there is about a 100-fold
>> increase in the spam messages appearing here compared to just a few
>> months ago. Is there a way for the server(s) to filter out the span?
>> Does it depend on your newsgroup provided? (I did switch to Giganews
>> a few months ago. I was with earthlink before.).
>
> Hi,
>
> ordb.org stopped last week, a site that holded domainnames that sent a
> lot of spam.
> That was announced in 2006 or something.
>
> That is the reason I see see an increase in spam, less filtering.
> Maybe you (or your provider) used ordb.org too?
> If you used another spamfilteringsystem, I don't know.
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller

Discard my posting.
After I read Lars response, I realised you were talking about
newsgroups, as you clearly stated also. :P
That has nothing to do with ordb.org afaik.

Erwin goes find a coffee.

Regards,
Erwin Moller