From: Charles Calvert <cbciv@...>
Date: 2009-06-09T01:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: SPAM from Usenet

On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 12:05:05 -0500, Aaron Turner <synfinatic@gmail.com>
wrote in
<1ca1c1410906071004v7acb4e42xe9d088d349c5457c@mail.gmail.com>:

[re: requiring comp.lang.ruby users to register with ruby-talk list to
have their posts gatewayed to the list.  I said it was a small
barrier, Frank Senault said it was a big one ...]

[snip]

>Simply put, if you don't find my proposed solution workable, then
>please provide a better one which has the impact of stopping the spam
>(keeping the headers while nice, won't accomplish that).

Aaron, how much spam are you seeing?  I'm seeing only a handful a day
on my news server.  I ask because if newsfeed that is used for the
gateway propagates a lot of spam, maybe we could find a cleaner
newsfeed instead.

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