Currently the best available solution to avoiding spam
seems to be a good filtering mail server. This can stop all
the spam from the major spam havens, which seem to account
for about 90% of the current problem. A variety of
filtering techniques are available. Spam lists have long
lives; a significant portion of the spam that still gets
through my server's filter is to an address I haven't used
in almost two years. A filter can stop most of this; hiding
takes a long time to become effective, if indeed it is
effective at all.
> I owuld love a way to update the FAQ by mail or web form to the server,
> because my last weeks update seems to have gotten lost in the news spew
> again. (checked on Dejanews, altavista, altavista.ca, and talkway and
If it didn't reach any of these or rtfm, go ahead and post
it again. A mail or web update on rtfm won't distribute it
via Usenet, nor update any of the other FAQ archives around
the world. We mostly talk about rtfm and faqs.org here, but
there are other widely used archives.
> no sign of the posting..I have asked the news admin at achilles to
> check. When my wofe was posting we tried the Autoposter, but found it
> was frustrating to use, and it seemed to want the archives to be part1
> part2 etc when Karen had used descriptive names.
I'd be interested in knowing what you found frustrating.
I've been using it for several years and find it easy and
reliable. You have to learn a few commands, which in some
cases have unnatural syntax. However, the only command you
use often enough to memorize anyway is 'update', and the
syntax is "update <password>".
Where did you think the server required part1 etc? AFAIK it
does not. See for example
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/tv/babylon-5/
which were posted by penguin-lust close enough together that
they were obviously linked. (Another FAQ not being
updated.)
Edward Reid
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