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

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<e9088ffd-12eb-40c8-9a82-65ea6aebefb4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
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?

No. To fight gun violence, you sometimes need to use guns.

In another post you cited

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

That was posted in 2004 to 4 newsgroups. Only 2 are now unmoderated:

news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
news.admin.net-abuse.misc

To see how well current spam cancellation procedures are working,
check out those two newsgroups. It will be amusing.

Clearly the old Usenet spam procedures have failed. You have cited a
definition of spam last modified in 1998. 10 years in internet time is
an eon. That seems weak to me.
.

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