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Re: (ASCEND) Interest poll for comp.dcom.sys.ascend
T. D. Wolf <direwolf@ritalin.shout.net> wrote:
> matt@netmeg.net (Matt Magri) wrote:
> > 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).
>
> If you're suggesting that we rely on vandals who forge control messages and
> take over other peoples' news servers, forget it. I prefer to think for myself.
> If someone went around my neighborhood grabbing everything out of the mailboxes
> that they deemed to be junk mail, they'd probably get their hand cut off.
Good point... mailing lists do have their share of trolls and strawmen,
too. Thanks for the illustration, but I'm not too sure what bearing it
has on the discussion. I think you'd still see less of it in the mailing
list than the newsgroup (your fine efforts notwithstanding, of course).
Being more available for participation has it's plusses and minuses. We're
probably missing a lot of positive contributions, as well.
> Moderation isn't an answer either. Even in this list we've seen spam, ads,
> and binaries passed on.
Which proves what precisely?
Matt
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