From: Robert Klemme Date: 2009-06-06T20:35:06+09:00 Subject: Re: SPAM from Usenet On 06.06.2009 01:06, trans wrote: > > On Jun 5, 6:52 pm, James Gray wrote: > >> If the spam we are getting here increases because users and emailing >> us about problems, well that tells us something: the gateway is >> annoying people. When that happens, we will need to agree on a >> solution to that problem. Right? > > I wonder how many people are using Usenet to interface with this list? +1 > If it is few, I wonder if they might be encouraged to use another > service to do so. I know of at least three other interfaces besides > the standard email method, namely Google Groups, Gmane and Ruby Forum. > Is there some advantage to using Usenet over these other methods? Yes, with NNTP you do not have to download all messages - just those which you are interested in. Also, my non web based news reader presents threads much nicer than any web based mail client I am using. And Google Groups does not have a nice interface IMHO (especially for posting code with indentation). Having said that I do participate via the email gateway when I don't have my mail client with me or when there are access restrictions. But my preferred gateway to the community is usenet. Btw, the amount of spam has increased but my NNTP provider as well as GMail both do a pretty good job at filtering so I am not (yet) annoyed by the volume. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/