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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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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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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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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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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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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