On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 11:03 AM, Eric Murray wrote: > Lne.com CDR subscribers won't see them, but someone is signing > up the ssz node to a lot of web mail lists.... roughly 30 as of > this morning. The IP addr of the host generating the subscription > requests is 62.211.132.149, which appears to belong to tin.it. > Have at it. > > Spam on cpunks has gone WAY up in the last month or so... to the point > that on the raw feed there is usually significantly more spam than > content[1]. The only drawback to this filtering scheme is that I still > have to look at all the spam to make sure there isn't a real post from > someone who is not yet on the posters list. There are ways to automate > this, once I figure out a method that will ensure that no content gets > dropped, I'll implement it.
My thanks for your efforts. (I would normally say "we thank you," but then there would be several foams from people saying I don't speak for anyone but myself.) I also filter out several list subscribers who are also major sources of worthless forwarded articles with no content added: Choate (of course, a la "www.villagevoice.com" silliness), Mattd/proffr/etc., and Jei (who posts in burst of half a dozen or more of the usual news sources.) What is it that makes people think they should forward ordinary news items, even in URL form? Do they think we don't have access to Yahoo, or CNN.com, or any of a dozen other news services which recirculate the same items? I got a question from a normally-cluefull person who asked me if thought his news URLs were ill-considered. Yes, I told him. Because the items are so widely available and because if even a _fraction_ of us posted N of the items we see in a day, the list would be swamped by non-content articles. He said he saw my point, and he hasn't been forwarding news articles and URLs. (Yeah, if anyone spots a truly relevant item, commenting on it is welcome. Or posting a URL. But simple game theory says that it's best that people don't just bounce things they read to our list, something Choate, mattd, and Jei seem to not understand.) --Tim May "Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound"
