Since my newsgroups (alt.supermodels and alt.binaries.pictures.supermodels)
have become so overwhelmed with cross-posting of advertisements for net-sex
web sites, porn-image cd-roms, and trolls for pictures of naked pictures by
otherwise faked internet users/sites who think posting to everything
beginning with alt.s* is a cool way to save time, I think discussion on how
to outright eliminate SPAM posts from the Net is entirely appropriate here.
I'm not the most prolific poster and the FAQ I maintain doesn't get out
there much, but then since I try to keep the pulse of the newsgroup its for,
there has been so little signal in the last year that I and many other
readers/posters just gave up. I've heard of some folks creating web-sites
that allow messages to be left by interested visitors for sharing
information. This appears to the response to the free-for-all spamming and
unsolicited Email posts that plague my neck of the Internet woods. If it
gets so that I have to create a web-server with passwords just to escape the
noise, the usenet community has simply failed and died due to the
"advertisements" spewed into it.
My FAQ needs work to keep it current and finally getting it up to current
FAQ archive headers and style standards will take time as well, but for now,
I'd appreciate learning how to those persons who flood the newsgroups with
junk from doing so.
If any FAQ Maintainers out there have been successful at driving out
unwanted noise from their newsgroups, I would very much appreciate some
pointers on how to do that effectively.
Thanks everyone,
Graham H. Watt
alt.supermodels FAQ maintainer
http://www2.gol.com/users/faq.html (warning 130+kb file)
-- Graham H. Watt graham@gol.com | Misawa, Japan UTC+9 http://www2.gol.com/users/graham/ | 40.40N 141.20E
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