From: "F. Senault" Date: 2009-06-06T22:00:09+09:00 Subject: Re: SPAM from Usenet Le 6 juin 2009 � 01:06, trans a �crit : > 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? I do - in fact, I'm managing the NNTP server the gatway is using. > 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. Ironically, AFAICT, Google Groups (the web-NNTP part) is the main source of spam nowadays. > Is there some advantage to using Usenet over these other methods? In my opinion, a newsreader interface is vastly superior to any other system when you want to follow high traffic lists (advanced thread handling, scoring, kill files, archival and auto-expiry, etc, etc). > I manage the Google Group and I try to delete all the SPAM I come > across, so anything that can reduce it is helpful to me. Well, if the community can come with a workable filter, I can certainly integrate it to my filters server-side. But I think there's a lot of legitimate traffic coming from Google Groups too, so we'd have to be careful. Fred -- When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse, Out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it now. The child is grown, the dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb. (Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb)