Re: -- a cure for spam (fwd)

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, quasi wrote:
On 26 Feb 2008 06:40:40 +0200, Phil Carmody
<thefatphil_demunged@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
quasi <quasi@xxxxxxxx> writes:

Michael Press <rubrum@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Google groups is a bad usenet denizen.

I don't disagree with that.

So why aren't you encouraging people not to use it?

Because it won't work.

Boycotts do work.

For one thing, new Google Groups users will just keep on arriving, It
would be a full time job trying to redirect them.

Just a once a week post
-- Important notice to users of Google Groups

And what would I redirect them to? None of the free alternatives that

What's wrong with mathforum or any other of the suggestions made earlier
in this thread?

I'm aware of are sufficiently low tech for the typical newbie.

If newbies require low tech, then they don't belong here,
in a math group, where low tech intelligence is impolite.

How about that, you've invented new acrimonious acronyms.
Low techie, low tech jerk, low tech gibberish.
.

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