Re: Proposal: What if We Started Flagging Non-SPAM Threads (Posts)?

____/ John Bokma on Sunday 03 February 2008 00:40 : \____

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

____/ John Bokma on Friday 01 February 2008 00:23 : \____

"Jezsta Web Productions" <use-our-email-form@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

thing of how this group is. Not doing anything and letting it go
without trying to at least start decent discussions will keep it so.

Spam doesn't go away if we suddenly all start to post on-topic and
informative posts. Spam goes away by reporting it. I've given up,
more or less on that. The plan for spam seems still to be to filter
it out, despite years and years of proof that filtering *does not
work*

Yes, at least someone tried to eradicate the issue. Thanks, John.

You're welcome Roy ;-) I still report spam I get via my blog, and some I
get via email Currently Geocities is abused a lot, and I report the
spamvertized URLs. After some time spammers give up, if they notice that
those sites (which redirect to the real ones), are deleted after a short
time. But still, it's a major pain in the ass to contact ISPs, and some
just say: hey, just put a CAPTCHA on your site, are you a programmer or
what!?

Have you gotten that linux.com problem sorted out at the end?
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