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Re: Proposal: What if We Started Flagging Non-SPAM Threads (Posts)?

____/ John Bokma on Sunday 03 February 2008 00:40 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> ____/ John Bokma on Friday 01 February 2008 00:23 : \____
>> 
>>> "Jezsta Web Productions" <use-our-email-form@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> thing of how this group is. Not doing anything and letting it go
>>>> without trying to at least start decent discussions will keep it so.
>>> 
>>> Spam doesn't go away if we suddenly all start to post on-topic and
>>> informative posts. Spam goes away by reporting it. I've given up,
>>> more or less on that. The plan for spam seems still to be to filter
>>> it out, despite years and years of proof that filtering *does not
>>> work*
>> 
>> Yes, at least someone tried to eradicate the issue. Thanks, John.
> 
> You're welcome Roy ;-) I still report spam I get via my blog, and some I
> get via email Currently Geocities is abused a lot, and I report the
> spamvertized URLs. After some time spammers give up, if they notice that
> those sites (which redirect to the real ones), are deleted after a short
> time. But still, it's a major pain in the ass to contact ISPs, and some
> just say: hey, just put a CAPTCHA on your site, are you a programmer or
> what!?

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