From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-06-07T11:34:02+09:00
Subject: Re: SPAM from Usenet

On Jun 6, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Charles Calvert wrote:

> As a Usenet moderator, I can tell you that there are
> a number of possible solutions.
>
> 1. First, one can take the whitelist approach, using a 'bot:
>
> a. Whitelist anything coming from ruby-talk.
>
> b. Whitelist posters with a history of posting on-topic.
>
> Anything on the whitelist gets automatically approved by the 'bot.  If
> a whitelisted poster goes rogue, you'll have to remove them from the
> whitelist post facto, but that shouldn't happen often, if ever.
> Whitelisting can even take paths into account, to deal with forgeries
> from net.kooks.

I'm kind of liking this approach.  It does add some maintenance I  
realize, but it's flawless and I don't think it would be too bad.   
Food for thought…

James Edward Gray II