From: pjb@... (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Date: 2008-04-07T23:05:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Is it possible to stop SPAM? Gregory Seidman writes: > Even if a global filter is in place and a moderator checks for false > positives, consider the situation where someone starts a really relevant > thread... in Korean. Looks like spam, so it gets filtered out. But wait, > it's a false positive, it's relevant... but the moderator can't read Korean > so it's out. Of course, it really is worthless to everyone who doesn't read > Korean, but the poor Korean user doesn't even see his/her posts to the list > at all, and doesn't know what's going on. He/she doesn't even get a helpful > response from one of the few other people on the list who can read and > write Korean explaining that this is an English-only list and that there is > probably a Korean one out there. Substitute for Korean any other language > the moderator doesn't read. Actually, this would have a very positive effect. We could just cut the cable between Korea and the rest of the world, and let Koreans deal with their spammers. We'll let them back on the Internet when they're done. Actually, South Korea is only 4th most spamming country, 1st being USA. http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lasso You know what to do now ;-) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__