Heikki Toivonen wrote: > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16913 > > Ian Oeschger wrote: > >> BTW (and since this is .documentation), can we talk about how much >> spam is getting into these newsgroups? What was the change that >> seemed to happen, some server update that leaves us exposed? >> >> Aren't there some tools or some easy ways to ward off the 581% >> increases in ejaculatory output I'm being advised of? I'm totally >> naive about this stuff, but if you look back through the newsgroups, >> there is like this sudden _onslaught_. >> >> Something like?: if ( ng_list > 5 ) { reject_msg() } > I think one possible solution would be to allow some people to delete the stuff out of the groups.
Spam is newsgroups is a much bigger problem, because it lies there forever...
