What in the hell happened?

Wow, long time Hansang! Hope all is well with you. Pretty much all NG's have gone to hell, I simply blacklist everyone from googlemail and it blocks about 80% of it. Still a bunch of the "good guys" around.

-Brian

Are there other forums where a newbie can sit back and soak all this stuff in? There's no activity here.

I still get my questions asked and answered via Google Mail. What am I supposed to do, get another service? I've got ATT DSL and news would be a separate service that I would have to purchase. Not everyone using Google Mail is a spammer.

You have to do a lot of research on the net to find anything worth while. Since the dot com bust most of the activity has dried up.

I still get my questions asked and answered via Google Mail. What am I supposed to do, get another service? I've got ATT DSL and news would be a separate service that I would have to purchase. Not everyone using Google Mail is a spammer.

While it is true that not all googlemail posters are spammers, 99.999% of them are, look at the spam in the groups, your see. You are also not posting using a googlemail address, you are posting using a yahoo.com address which is not filtered.

This group is really for certs, there is a great regular Cisco group for asking questions, features, function etc, hell, people even ask cert questions in there from time to time. comp.dcom.sys.cisco

Hey Brian. Man..I've been out of it for a while (had to come up to speed on home theater stuff! ;) but this is out of control! Damn.

there are (were???) some must read groups. comp.dcom.lans.ethernet, comp.dcom.sys.cisco, and comp.protocols.tcp-ip.