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  • astraweb - newsgroups with yEnc rar files

    From Amessyroom@VERT/TL-QWK to all on Tue Jul 8 04:30:03 2025
    I recently found I was quickly going through my usenet quota with astraweb.

    When I reviewed groups that had a large number of messages I found

    #AREA usenet_altcompfreeware alt.comp.freeware a
    #AREA usenet_complangc++ comp.lang.c++ a

    Both of these were receiving yEnc RAR parts.

    I have removed both of these from my incoming feed. c++ makes no sense; but
    I guess it is just another form of spam.

    Thought I would share in case others may be getting c++ and or freeware
    group, and haven't noticed the increase use in bandwidth to pull down
    these groups.

    I've tried to add some subject filtering; in case it is occurring in other groups. But just removed these two for the time being.
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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Amessyroom on Tue Jul 8 09:55:10 2025
    Re: astraweb - newsgroups with yEnc rar files
    By: Amessyroom to all on Tue Jul 08 2025 04:30 am

    #AREA usenet_altcompfreeware alt.comp.freeware a
    #AREA usenet_complangc++ comp.lang.c++ a

    What kinds of things usually get posted to those that prompted you to initially add them?

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