Table of Contents

• Our policy on spammers spamming newsgroups through GroupBrowser.com
  
  
• Why are some categories on GroupBrowser read-only?
  
  
• How do I use attachments with GroupBrowser?
  
  
• How does GroupBrowser protect newsgroup email addresses from Spambots?
  
  
• How to post to newsgroups with GroupBrowser
  
  
• Suggesting a new newsgroup or category
  
  
• What are newsgroups?
  
  
  

Our policy on spammers spamming newsgroups through GroupBrowser.com

Like you, the creators of GroupBrowser are big fans of newsgroups and Usenet in general. Therefore, we know how bad spamming has become on public newsgroups.

With this in mind, GroupBrowser.com has a no tolerance policy in regards to people using this site to spam newsgroups. If someone is found to be spamming newsgroups through this site, they will be immediately banned along with their IP address. There will be no special cases or interventions.

If you are caught spamming through this site, you will no longer be allowed to use this site.

Why are some categories on GroupBrowser read-only?

Some newsgroup categories in GroupBrowser are set as read-only. This means that you can not post to these newsgroups through GroupBrowser.com. We do this as certain organizations or companies require you to register for an account and log in to their newsgroups before you can post to them. We make it a point to honor and adhere to their policies. For those categories that we have set as read-only, we will specify how you can post to these newsgroups.

How do I use attachments with GroupBrowser?

GroupBrowser.com has deliberately decided not to import or support attachments to newsgroups. This is done in order to protect our users from potential malware that are common on newsgroups.

How does GroupBrowser protect newsgroup email addresses from Spambots?

Unfortunately, many news readers tend to place your email address in the message when quoting or replying to a message. Spambots can then use retrieve your email addresses from your messages and add it to their lists.

Since GroupBrowser mirrors many newsgroups, any email addresses that are contained in messages will also be mirrored here. In order to stop spambots from retrieving your email address from this site we automatically substitue the @-BLCKSPM- symbol for another phrase to protect your email address. This will be randomized in the future.

How to post to newsgroups with GroupBrowser

Messages in newsgroups are listed in a threaded manner. What this means is that when someone posts a new message to a newsgroup, other members have the ability to post a reply to that original message, or reply to submessages. These replies are threaded like a tree.

In order to accomodate a similar experience here at GroupBrowser in order to reply to a message you must specify the particular message to reply to by clicking on the quote button in the particular post. Your message will then be added as a reply to that particular post.

This behaviour will then be used when sending the message to the newsgroup itself so conform to standard newsgroup behaviour.

Suggesting a new newsgroup or category

Groupbrowser is always happy to add a new newgroup or category to our site. If you have a suggestion for an active newsgroup that feel free to contact us with that information.

What are newsgroups?

For more information about newsgroups visit this link:

About Newsgroups