On Sunday 23 July 2006 15:42, Quantum Mechanic wrote: > > I find I don't have time to read much of the list, and I can't remember to > visit the forum (unless someone mentions it on the list).
Navigating the forum (i.e. following the threads you're interested in, and keeping track of the new threads) takes a significant amount of effort. That's what I meant by "a pain". > > But if you're spending a lot of time weeding out spam for little benefit > (in terms of real traffic), it may be time to fold. > > Perhaps an alternate question to ask: "Does someone wanting the list to > continue want to put up with the spam filtering?" I agree entirely. However I don't see why the weeding should take a significant amount of effort. Automated spam filters can be pretty effective. Personally I wouldn't object if the _occasional_ spam did get through - I'd far rather that did happen than that the occasional ham got stuck in the filter's maw. If you want to improve on that, then let's try to set up something where contributions would have to be encrypted, or at least signed, using a secure cipher. My guess is that spammers wouldn't be bothered to obtain & register the necessary keys. The idea is that the list would reject (automatically) inbound messages which weren't encoded or signed using the contributer's registered key. List members would receive plain text as at present, so the "silent majority" wouldn't have to go to any extra effort. > Perhaps the "project space" has reached a plateau, and we're really just > waiting for another breakthrough? There's a lot of truth here, but little we can do - except keep searching for that breakthrough! Regards Brian Beesley _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
