The Big-8 newsgroups are being swamped with spam. Please, do something about the spam.
Now comes the part where someone makes excuses and tells me to get a newsreader that can filter out the spam, so I can that no one posts here anymore because usenet is a spam ridden hole.
Do something.
1. Makes yourselves the default moderators and implement some simple generic spam filters. You don't have to get involved in policing off topic posts and flame wars.
2. Find real moderators for groups. Some are easy.
comp.os.msdos.djgpp and comp.lang.python are mirrors of mailing
lists. Make the mailing list admins the moderators.
3. Complain. Contact news servers that inject too much spam.
Complain to Google about Google Groups. They might listen to an
official complaint from the Big-8.
4. Issue a statement to news server providers asking them to block
news servers that inject too much spam.
5. Supply spam filters to new servers and issue updates the way
anti-malware software does.
Please do something.
Thank you
They don't catch it all. It's real work keeping up with all changing
spam tactics.
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