Forgive me, world. Honestly and truly I didn't mean to re-open this
thread.
At 9:42 PM -0400 09/05/01, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
>If I were a news admin (which, thankfully, I'm not), the
>number would be lower than five. [...]
>I'd make an exception for items posted to news.answers)
Yes, the problem is that (when it was last discussed) most apparently
did not make any exception for news.answers. It was also difficult to
find the algorithms used, because those developing the algorithms
rightly assumed that spammers would use any such knowledge to
circumvent the controls.
Edward Reid
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