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

On 2008-01-12, in sci.math, quasi wrote:
A periodically posted advisory message is used in many forums, and is
_not_ regarded as true spam.

Whether or not it's "true spam", it does count as cancellable Usenet spam if
posted two to three times a day, regardless of how well-intentioned or
informative it is. See

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/spam-faq/

The same goes for substantially identical replies to posters not adhering to
your prefix scheme. Of course, there's nothing to stop you from posting
actual replies, adding "-- " to the Subject: line, and including a brief
suggestion the original poster does the same next time. A good place for
such a suggestion might be in your signature, where it will advertise your
idea to anyone reading your posts. Lo and behold, provided you and others
who find this idea appealing do that and start interesting threads and post
informative replies, the need for spamming is no more!

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.

A silly notice posted two to three times a day won't make a noticeable
difference to my sci.math experience but might well result in the account of
its poster pulled, and is in case a bizarre way to "combat" spam in
sci.math.

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