From: Aaron Turner Date: 2009-06-08T08:11:00+09:00 Subject: Re: SPAM from Usenet On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Michael Bruschkewitz wrote: > > "Charles Calvert" 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. You're ignoring the mailing list- most mail clients can't delete an entire thread based on a single message via rules. I know Gmail and Mail.app can't. It also creates a situation ripe for abuse since now anyone can delete entire threads. -- Aaron Turner http://synfin.net/ http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin