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

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Aatu Koskensilta wrote:

On 2008-01-12, in sci.math, quasi wrote:

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!

It's a terrible bother when reading by subject, which is the easiest and
preferred way for short (< 6 posts/day) topics, because it removes the
reply from the other post of with that subject to place them at the
beginning of the list of subjects. This forces those that don't like
threaded lists (except for long threads) to use that mode or to miss your
participation in the subject. Better is to put your -- mark at the end of
the subject line where it won't dislocated it from the body of the
discussion.

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.

As spam threads are adding as many non-mathematical posts as spam does
itself, to what worth is this off topic discussion? The answer is the
same, for an ad free, crank free, jerk free newsgroup, somebody or
somebodies need to start a sci.math.mod moderated math newsgroup. The
time spent in this discussion could have been as well put to creating a
new newsgroup to our liking. I have posted twice the instructions how to
do this in the thread 'Green Eggs and Spam'.

What is next? To cross post from sci.math into the appropriate
newsgroups for forming a new newsgroup to promote and generate
some interest in forming sci.math.mod?

Oh, BTW a periodic notice about the Mark of Quasi will quickly clue in
cranks while deterring new comers until they see the Mark of Quasi notice.
Thus if the notice isn't frequent, new comers may likely find sci.math of
no notice. It's even quite possible, they won't notice the notice and go
away disappointed.

For those who want to converse with the sci.math public and also the
quasi-group, they will double post, once for the general public and
again as befits circumstances with the Mark of Quasi to converse
with the quasi-group.

Riddle of the day. Do members of a quasi-group always associate?

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