"Todd C. Lawson" <tlawson@amug.org> said:
>There is one baby in 3.4 million gallons of water. This is the proportion
>of the spam problem Usenet faces. Break down and bend on some FAQ policy
>to save Usenet, please.
No. I refuse to bend when slightly less assinine policies will
catch only the most widely cross-posted FAQs, while still catching
most current spam. Also, the nature of spam is that no matter *what*
you do to control it, they will find a way to get around you. If you
eliminate the possibility to cross-post, they simply post one copy on
each newsgroup (EMP). If you restrict people to cross-posting to
just three newsgroups, then they choose newsgroup trios that are as
unlike each other as possible, both in terms of content and how
widely they are carried.
What remains is that FAQs are currently under attack as a result
of short-sighted news admin behaviour to attempt to control the
elementally uncontrollable (at least, given the current mechanisms).
If they really want to control spam and EMP, there are auto-bots they
can run or create to do that without endangering FAQs.
I reiterate my position -- I utterly refuse to give a single
angstrom on this matter. Other, more effective techniques are
already available, and the only ones that will be hurt are all NetCom
users (since FAQs won't be left around nearly as long as they would
have been, assuming they make it through at all), and all users
everywhere else who have to deal with the dreckage and bletchery the
NetCom unwashed masses cause.
>Well if that's the case, why have FAQs at all. That's a pretty
>pie-in-the-sky proposition, holding ISPs liable for the education of their
>newbies.
That is *precisely* what AOL is being held responsible for over
in list-managers. If you don't want to hold anyone responsible for
any of their users, feel free to continue to hold that opinion.
However, you are in the minority, and until you change your mind,
you'd better not complain about any AOL users.
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