Re: One way to combat spam in sci.math ...

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:48:27 -0800 (PST), aatu.koskensilta@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:

quasi wrote:
But with so many daily spam messages, which the non-filterers have to
deal with anyway, a few more should be no big deal.

So you propose to combat spam in sci.math by spamming sci.math. Does
that not strike you as somewhat perverse?

A periodically posted advisory message is used in many forums, and is
_not_ regarded as true spam.

But if you want to regard it as spam, fine, just filter it out. It's a
_fixed_ message, not a variable one like the ones used by the true
spammers, so filtering it out is child's play.

But even if you don't want to bother filtering it out, it's a small
number of postings when measured against the number of true spam
messages posted daily.

Presumably you are claiming that nothing needs to be done -- that you
can live with the daily deluge of true spam. If that's the case, you
can't justifiably make a big deal about only a few more. You can't
have it both ways.

quasi
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