From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-09-24T05:21:21+09:00
Subject: Re: The World Trade Plaza - Free Trade Leads

On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 23, 9:55 am, "merwick.k" <merwic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> FREE INTERNATIONAL TRADE LEADS ==>
>>> The World Trade Plaza    http://trade-plaza.blogspot.com
>>
>> It looks like these SPAM messages are actually coming through the
>> USENET group. From the raw message:
>>
>> Received: from Usenet via a Usenet to mail gateway located at
>>    comp.lang.ruby.  This service provided as a courtesy
>>    to the ruby-talk mailing list.  If this message is SPAM, its
>>    ultimate origin is Usenet, not this gateway program.  All
>>    subscribers to the ruby-talk mailing list agree to receive the
>>    Usenet postings made to comp.lang.ruby via this gateway.  Please
>>    see http://www.ruby-lang.org/ruby-talk-usenet-policy.html.
>
> If the situation gets bad, maybe James could install a spam filter at
> the gateway?

I guess we technically could.  However, the gateway makes posts to the  
mailing list like any other user.  Thus it really should fall under  
the standard spam policy of the list, I think.

James Edward Gray II