> Which is an flat-out lie. I have sent you the spam thresholds faq
> under separate cover.
According to Chris's FAQ, he is motivated by arithmetic
rather than personal judgment. He says he finds crossposting
benign; he targets only multiposts.
The problem is, the number of newsgroups grows at the rate
of -- what? -- one a week, one a day? But the maximum length
of the 'Newsgroups:' header remains constant at 2^10 bytes.
Therefore, as time goes by, crossposting reaches fewer and
fewer readers, and multiposting seems more and more
necessary to reach the targeted audience.
Rewriting the NNTP code may not feasible. But allowing more
than one 'Newsgroups:' line would go a long way to solve the
problem. Also, saving headers and text to separate files
would cut storage costs. Many different header files could
reference the same text file.
But indiscriminate zapping is clearly no solution. It is
just leading to the great Cancel War.
> If they was going to die a natural death, why are we having to
> kill 90,000+ of them per month?
That's what I'd like to know. Why *are* you having to kill
90,000+ of them per month? Why don't you leave a few for me?
My bot is getting rusty. ;-)
Maybe you're giving spam a challenge, something to live for.
Zapping a post may only encourage the spammer to try again.
If it hadn't been cancelled, the spammer reasons, it might
have succeeded.
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Vicki Richman vicric@panix.com National Writers Union
Harlem, New York PGP 2.6 UAW Local 1981, AFL/CIO
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."
-Dorothy Parker, on her abortion
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