From: Michael Bruschkewitz <brusch4_removeunderlinesandtextbetween_@...>
Date: 2009-06-08T07:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: SPAM from Usenet


"Charles Calvert" <cbciv@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:hh6m25hip5lcmntukmrole0emnl9i0aosh@4ax.com...
> Anything not on the whitelist gets queued for human moderation.  That
> should be a fairly small percentage.

Whitelisting bots would help, but...

There are much more of first time posters than spammers.
One of the strengths of Ruby is friendly support provided by community to 
noobs.
Although spam is annoying, it is not a big amount of work just to skip those 
messages. Clean up your mind and you will not even take notice of spam as 
inconvenience.
(Take spam messages as possibility to train your brain... :)
On the other side, delaying responses to noobs and employing moderators 
would waste real resources.
It would be really a bad trade.

My approach was to waste as less resources as possible.

Regards,
Michael B.