Re: -- All the spam we knew...

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 21:28:37 -0800 (PST), junoexpress
<MTBrenneman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 9, 12:10 am, William Elliot <ma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, junoexpress wrote:

I guess one thing people can do is write the words "MATH" at the
beginning of the subject line: that's one word you'll never find pop
up in spam! (Like the way Harris uses "JSH" at the start of his
posts). At least it would make it possible to find any articles while
browsing with Google Groups (which is getting harder and harder with
all the spam: I mean finding the posts, that is ;>)).

Quasi has proposed that math posters use
--
to start the subject line. You see some of this
currently going on. However it has not taken hold
as yet. What may be needed is twice weekly or even
more frequent notices about using
--
and what it indicates.

Mea culpa: haven't been keeping up ...
Thanks for the info.

Actually, I like using the keyword "math" better.

It's simpler, less explanation is needed.

As long as that word is somewhere in the subject line -- anywhere,
then the filters can match it. Any case, not necessarily all caps, but
preferably at the beginning, to make manual filtering easier.

Thus, posts might appear, for example, as ...

Math: subject
Math -- subject
[Math] subject
{Math} subject
(Math) subject

For my myself, I would probably go with

Math --

but it doesn't matter which -- dress it up anyway you want, just as
long as the word "math" appears in the subject line, preferably at the
beginning. Case shouldn't matter -- upper case, lower case, mixed case
-- who cares -- let each user choose.

Thus, I recommend switching from "-- " (which didn't work anyway) to
"math". The "math" keyword may fail as well, but it has a better
chance since it's essentially self evident as to its purpose, and
hence, once enough posts begin that way, many new users will quickly
catch on.

quasi
.

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