From Newsgroup: alt.free.newsservers
On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 22:58:24 -0000 (UTC), Brian <
brian@tc.net> wrote
in article <1126qef$ngsc$
1@paganini.bofh.team>:
The irony is that certain usenet admins aid and abet
paganini.bofh.team is an excellent newsserver, i also regularly use
several other servers for read-only purposes, freenews.netfront.net, news.neodome.net, nntp.csiph.com, news.blueworldhosting.com; 40tude
dialog makes it easy to select different servers for each newsgroup,
and also makes it easy to blacklist trolls, selectively kill-filing
the chronic offenders, and automatically ignoring the rest "from *",
thus watching only the whitelisted contributors/topics/servers, etc.
i have set 40tude to automatically "move" all troll farm chatter to
the "troll" folder, and all otherwise automatically ignored headers
to the "junk" folder, which i check (the junk folder) before purges,
maybe to add another killfile entry, or more rarely a new whitelist,
then purge daily, deleting dozens or even hundreds of troll headers,
so my subscribed newsgroups are usually low activity, some inactive
for weeks at a time (i.e., apart from what i might have posted from
time to time) . . . but without using filters, these newsgroups are
(with few exceptions) continuously targeted by troll farm "chatbots"
that constitute the 99.999% majority of all usenet content globally,
their purpose apparently to discourage the unwary from using usenet
you can ignore trolls . . . let your newsreader do it automatically.
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