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As an open, unauthenticated server, we're aware we're in the eye of the storm regarding spam concerns. We take this seriously and have implemented a multi-layered defense strategy:

**Anti-Spam Arsenal:**
- **Cleanfeed** - Real-time spam filtering with pattern matching
- **SpamAssassin** - Configured specifically for Usenet traffic
- **Fail2Ban** - Aggressive rate limiting on port 119
- **IPTables rate limiting** - Network-level abuse prevention
- **Hashcash** - Proof-of-work system for posting
- **Ed25519 signatures** - Cryptographic message authentication

We actively monitor abuse reports and maintain strict anti-spam policies while preserving user privacy.

https://news.tcpreset.net/cleanfeed_parser.php https://news.tcpreset.net/spamassassin_logparser.php

Working on Black/Block lists based on above results.


Gabx

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From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:31:13 +0000 (UTC)
Gabx <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:

As an open, unauthenticated server, we're aware we're in the eye of
the storm regarding spam concerns. We take this seriously and have implemented a multi-layered defense strategy:

**Anti-Spam Arsenal:**
- **Cleanfeed** - Real-time spam filtering with pattern matching
- **SpamAssassin** - Configured specifically for Usenet traffic
- **Fail2Ban** - Aggressive rate limiting on port 119
- **IPTables rate limiting** - Network-level abuse prevention
- **Hashcash** - Proof-of-work system for posting
- **Ed25519 signatures** - Cryptographic message authentication

We actively monitor abuse reports and maintain strict anti-spam
policies while preserving user privacy.

https://news.tcpreset.net/cleanfeed_parser.php https://news.tcpreset.net/spamassassin_logparser.php

Unfortunately, for those of us using cnfs cycbuffers. once a spam gets
through, it's space we're never going to get back...not for me anyway
because I don't expire articles and I keep adding new buffers as
required but I have only so much disk space.

While I'm not a fan of anonymous usenet access, it's pretty much
impossible to stop since any man and his dog can create a gmail,
outlook, yahoo, or myriad of other accounts.
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While I'm not a fan of anonymous usenet access, it's pretty much
impossible to stop since any man and his dog can create a gmail,
outlook, yahoo, or myriad of other accounts.

It's Not Spam!

What you "think" is spam is not spam for other people. "D" thinks if
we're not talking about omnimix then it's spam. Posts are going in
here about privacy, surveillance, conspiracy, corruption etc.

If branded toothpaste or coffee was put in here then yes it's spam!

This is USENET and nobody can censor what is posted here, if you are
not interested in the subject line then DON'T READ IT!!!

"NOBODY" has the right to judge it as spam!

Go see the doc "D" and tell him you have had too much spam!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HzzorAW0si4


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From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

Nigel Reed wrote:

Unfortunately, for those of us using cnfs cycbuffers. once a spam gets through, it's space we're never going to get back...not for me anyway
because I don't expire articles and I keep adding new buffers as
required but I have only so much disk space.

While I'm not a fan of anonymous usenet access, it's pretty much
impossible to stop since any man and his dog can create a gmail,
outlook, yahoo, or myriad of other accounts.

I have a 15-day retention policy for all articles.
It helps mitigate spam accumulation on disk, as you said.

It's a tradeoff which ensures we don't indefinitely store spam that
slips through filters, you know.

I was considering transitioning to Tor onion service exclusively.

BUT

While tor rapresents anonymity and freedom of expressions on the other
hand it would turns out to be another form of gate keeping.

Spam ?

Limiting it has always been the only way to keep the service alive.
We have no choice.

Gabx
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what hte hell has this got to do with news.software.nntp
the group is about and for usenet software, not general software
In future with your self advertising, please consider this when including groups

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:31:13 +0000, Gabx wrote:

As an open, unauthenticated server, we're aware we're in the eye of the
storm regarding spam concerns. We take this seriously and have
implemented a multi-layered defense strategy:

**Anti-Spam Arsenal:**
- **Cleanfeed** - Real-time spam filtering with pattern matching - **SpamAssassin** - Configured specifically for Usenet traffic -
**Fail2Ban** - Aggressive rate limiting on port 119 - **IPTables rate limiting** - Network-level abuse prevention - **Hashcash** -
Proof-of-work system for posting - **Ed25519 signatures** -
Cryptographic message authentication

We actively monitor abuse reports and maintain strict anti-spam policies while preserving user privacy.

https://news.tcpreset.net/cleanfeed_parser.php https://news.tcpreset.net/spamassassin_logparser.php

Working on Black/Block lists based on above results.

Gabx

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From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

In article <68f2fdfa$1@news.ausics.net>
noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:

what hte hell has this got to do with news.software.nntp
the group is about and for usenet software, not general software
In future with your self advertising, please consider this when including groups

Whining noted.

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On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:16:32 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:

In article <68f2fdfa$1@news.ausics.net>
noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:

what hte hell has this got to do with news.software.nntp the group is
about and for usenet software, not general software In future with
your self advertising, please consider this when including groups

Whining noted.

you're right, I should resolve the problem on my end, configure dnews to filter out all posts from his system, of course whilst i'm there I should
take out all psots from dizum too, now why didn't I think of that sooner.
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In article <68f372b7$1@news.ausics.net>
noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:

On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:16:32 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:

In article <68f2fdfa$1@news.ausics.net>
noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:

what hte hell has this got to do with news.software.nntp...

Del

you're right, I should resolve the problem on my end, configure dnews to filter out all posts from his system, of course whilst i'm there I should take out all psots from dizum too, now why didn't I think of that sooner.

You - and all the others of this group, better killfile all those anon
bleeps and their trolls. They, especially this gabx a-wipe, have
destroyed numerous groups with their crap. Answer them and you're
feeding them. Sadly, though, almost none of the users of a group under
attack will killfile. We will then see another group become meaningless
and dead.

Sad.

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