Subj : astraweb - newsgroups with yEnc rar files
To   : all
From : Amessyroom
Date : Tue Jul 08 2025 04:30:03

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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