On 07/30/2012 10:57 AM, Steven Noble wrote:
The fix for this issue is trivial. Every new signup should require a sponsor or
a deposit of funds into a new member fund. Once a member has made a relevant
post regarding a NANOG related item their funds are returned.
If someone spams they forfeit the money and it is used to help defray the costs
of attending NANOG for the 99%.
If the poster has been sponsored by a current member, said member is flogged in
public at the next meeting.
...runs
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 30, 2012, at 10:42 AM, "Patrick W. Gilmore"<patr...@ianai.net> wrote:
I'm sorry Panashe is upset by this rule. Interestingly, "Your search - Panashe
Flack nanog - did not match any documents." So my guess is that a post from that
account has not happened before, meaning the post was moderated yet still made it through.
Has anyone done a data mining experiment to see how many posts a month are from
"new" members? My guess is it is a trivial percentage.
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TTFN,
patrick
On Jul 30, 2012, at 13:35 , valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:04:36 +0200, Panashe Flack said:
list for continued activity. And just for reference - have you guys
SEEN the "Linux Kernel Mailing List"? - it gets frequent spam posts
and yet is perfectly able to ignore the spam/irrelevant posts and
continue on its remit.
For those who don't drink from the Linux-Kernel firehose, it averages
1 or 2 spams per day - and anywhere from 500 to 700 postings a day.
As Linus Torvalds said, back when it was averaging 200 a day:
"Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who
expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will
read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about
a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the
individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together
really well."
The list managers do an incredible job of stopping spam - but even if
50 or 75 a day got through, they'd just be lost in the noise. You're skipping
several hundred messages a day, skipping a few more isn't any different.
Would be an iPhone user to suggest such an idea. Thanks for not
implementing this so us peons can learn a thing or two, too.
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