Re: FAQ Maintainers Digest for 2/5/97

lfirrantello@BIX.com
Thu, 06 Feb 1997 03:19:45 -0500 (EST)

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> 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.
>
I just received a MMF spam from a canadian provider that seems to have a G5
or G4 filter. He posted alphabetically to 5 comp.os.os2.* groups. I wonder
if he's dumb enough to post to comp.binaries.os2 also? I'll get that one
too.

I regularly get spam in pairs single posted to both of the groups I
moderate. but I also get the alphabetical G10+'s

--Mick Brown (lfirrantello@bix.com)

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