How does one go  about contacting the provider?.  Sorry, I'm not that
skilled on computers .  I really want to know.  I just canceled the whole
group, which I hated to do.   MLB

Mine would look nice flopping against your chin sweetie ;)

Do you swallow?

I emailed my newsservice and sent them headers. They seem to be following up
on it quickly. I was impressed to get a response email within 20 minutes of
my original email.

Anyone whose news service doesn't take action should seriously considering
subscribing to another news service, be it free or for pay, that does.

I never subscribed to a paid news service in my life before this weekend --
I always used the ones that came with my ISP or the internet-based ones.
Then this mess happened, and I noticed that the majority of posters here
who were declaring their newsgroup to be garbage-free were using
news.individual.net for their newsgroups.

So now, my suggestions to anyone who wants to return to our regularly
scheduled newsgroup are twofold:

- Use http://www.talkaboutpets.com/group/rec.pets.cats.anecdotes/ for free
access until your ISP/news provider/etc is able to clear the garbage off
their servers. There's no killfile, but they do block the gibberish posts
from ever appearing.
- If you have a little spare cash, subscribe to news.individual.net for
the best of both worlds: no gibberish posts AND the ability to killfile.
Once everything's set up properly, if you didn't KNOW there was nonsense
afoot, it's no exaggeration to declare that you wouldn't be able to tell
there's a problem. The disruptive stuff literally never shows up.

HTH and all that good stuff.

Donna

I spent some time deleting all the first batch, but when the second batch
came in I found of way of highlighting all, not just the ones I wanted to
delete unfortunately unless I did them individually, but posts I'd intended
to reply to as well.   I have a brand new clean rpca with just a few real
posts in it on News Individual Net, who seem to be on to the problem as they
have made the troll messages unavailable on the server, just leaving the
downloaded headers.
As it happens, I have a backup on Wanadoo newsreader, they drop posts but I
kept them because they support binaries and NIN don't.  I like to look at
abpa sometimes.
Problem is I rarely read rpca on wanadoo and only clean up there
occasionally, so I now have more than 18,000 messages on it!  Thank goodness
for that little bar thingie that you can drag down on the right hand side
under the ^ to skip like lightning by all those troll posts.
Whether I will be able to remember the posts I wanted to respond to is
another matter ;-)
So here are purrs and prayers for everyone who is ill, has a sick kitty, has
missing relatives in the hurricane, is struggling financially or needs a
job, etc. in case I deleted you.
I will never be forced to give up this group.  It's too wonderful and
amazing and unique.  If necessary I will delete thousands of posts
individually even though it will take a long while.  I will do it more than
once or twice, if I have to, as many times as is needed.

I worry about the members on dial up.  I know how cross I used to get to
have to pay to download spam, but it's no sweat to me now broadband finally
reached me.
I'd like to think of a way that all you dial-ups could unsubscribe for a
while, be updated on important things by broadbanders and resubscribe when
advised it's safe again.   It escapes me at the moment though I'm sure there
is one.
On the other hand we could all reassemble on catslaves.  I'm not a member
though, and I don't know how to get to be one either.

Tweed