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Re: :-( :-( What Happened to AISE?

__/ [ canadafred ] on Monday 28 May 2007 08:40 \__

> On May 28, 12:10 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> I want to come back, but there is so much spam here. Virtually every OP
>> comes from Google Groups... :-(
> 
> Hey Roy
> 
> Thanks for stepping in.
> 
> There are only two alternatives that I can see :
> 
> A - Do like other Usenet groups and just let it decay. With rotting
> comes less participation and more spammers seeing the opening. Spammed
> out groups lose their authoritativeness.
> 
> B - Ignore (and fight) the bastards as much as possible. Starting more
> relevant topics can saturate the spam a little bit so as to make the
> group appear to be less spammed out.

Thanks. A lot seems to have changed since I was last here. The volume of
posts has gone down, based on what I have seen in the weekly stats (I still
have them automatically generated every Tuesday and they get posted to my
desktop. Do you want me to resume posting these by the way?)... a few people
seem to have walked away... Dave ended up in Netscape.com not so long ago...
I see Cat is still visiting, as does yourself... :-)

I am sick of SPAM and with lack of participation, the signal-to-noise ratio
goes down. With that, mirrors become obsolete as well and so does
readership. I have just realised that for the past 2 months SPAM has been
quietly accumulating in my PHP-Nuke subsites... no wonder Google got
upset... with thousands of links to adult sites... no rel="nofollow"... took
me an hour just to delete them at database level... which left cruft and
semi-broken CMSs. Just to think it's people like Dave who are/were doing
that sort of damage. Anyway, let's see how it goes. AISE is like family. :-)

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