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  • astraweb - newsgroups with yEnc rar files

    From Amessyroom@1:103/705 to all on Tue Jul 8 04:30:02 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 Sam Alexander@1:103/705 to Amessyroom on Tue Jul 8 13:28:18 2025
    Re: astraweb - newsgroups with yEnc rar files
    By: Amessyroom to all on Tue Jul 08 2025 04:30 am

    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.


    Yeah, on Usenet the binary creeps take over any channel they want so lots of these old channels have been turned into binary dumps. It's sad, Usenet was the goto place for all things, now other than a few niche groups it's mostly garbage.

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  • From Amessyroom@1:103/705 to phigan on Tue Jul 8 19:45:06 2025
    Re: astraweb - newsgroups with yEnc rar files
    By: phigan to Amessyroom on Tue Jul 08 2025 09:55 am

    c++ popular programming language.

    freeware was a mistake. I had spent a few days
    trying to determine which groups were actually active,
    but wasn't successful 100%. So I came up with a list
    based on activity I found on other usenet statistics.

    I would have assumed that freeware would have been
    discussions, not binaries as it was not a alt.binaries
    group; but it seems people like creating spam and problems
    however they can and started posting microsoft products
    to the group in yEnc encoded RAR parts. So although
    newslink didn't bring in the binary file; it was going
    against my download from astra. I bought 25G that everybody
    said would last a life time, and I'm < 10G because of these
    stupid binary postings in non binary groups.
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  • From MRO@1:103/705 to Amessyroom on Wed Jul 9 13:04:50 2025
    Re: astraweb - newsgroups with yEnc rar files
    By: Amessyroom to all on Tue Jul 08 2025 04:30 am


    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.


    usenet is mostly for binaries now so not surprised.
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  • From MRO@1:103/705 to Amessyroom on Wed Jul 9 13:07:04 2025
    Re: astraweb - newsgroups with yEnc rar files
    By: Amessyroom to phigan on Tue Jul 08 2025 07:45 pm

    freeware was a mistake. I had spent a few days trying to determine
    which groups were actually active, but wasn't successful 100%. So I
    came up with a list based on activity I found on other usenet
    statistics.

    I would have assumed that freeware would have been discussions,
    not binaries as it was not a alt.binaries group; but it seems people
    like creating spam and problems however they can and started posting

    why would people want to discuss freeware? of course they would use it for binaries.
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