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Re: (ASCEND) Interest poll for comp.dcom.sys.ascend
Kevin A. Smith <kevin@ascend.com> wrote:
>Matt Holdrege wrote:
>>At 05:37 PM 1/20/98 -0500, William T Wilson wrote:
>>>On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Devin Ganger wrote:
>>>> variety of telecommunications equipment. A group that specifically
>>>> addresses Ascend products is conspicuously absent.
I'd like to see it, personally. It's always kind of an awkward issue
when you've got a healthy mailing list already in existence, tho. What
happens to the list of you do it, etc.
>>>HOT XXX ROUTERS! MAKE 500,000 MODEMS IN ONLY TWO WEEKS!
>>
>>Good point. I don't know the latest in anti-spamming techniques on USENET.
>>Is there a good method for preventing it?
>
>I see this kind of junk from time-to-time on various newsgroups. Even "XXX
>Adult Sites" being cross-posted to all of the "hi-tech" comp.dcom groups. I
>think it's nowhere near as prevalent as the SPAM/junk-email that I get
>personally, but it is still there.
I don't see much here, but then we run Cleanfeed on our server (for the
curious: <http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/antispam.html>). There's
also lots of cancel activity attacking spam on Usenet (for one thing,
it's a bit more satisfying since, unlike mail, you can get it after it's
been sent) and that helps tremendously from a reader perspective (from
a newsadmin perspective, tho, it means an ungodly number of cancel
messages flying around).
Anyway, some of the more recently-created newgroups are trying to get
fancier about dealing with it (in addition to having the charter
prohibit this and that) in advance... robomoderation, NoCeM-based
(sigh, see <http://www.cm.org/>) marking of inappropriate stuff, etc. A
little beyond me, I'm afraid. I've been concentrating a lot on tricks
to clean up our news spool so I've fallen behind on state-of-the-art
elsewhere in Usenet. ;-)
Matt
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