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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:55:49 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
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Subject: Re: various spam
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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 08:44:12AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Why not block it before it ever hits the lists?
> 
> I guess the problem is that it's not exactly spam, so you'd need an
> AI engine to figure out what it was and block it.  

Is there not some standard keywords within the post that we can block?
Or even a specific phrase? Or block the email addresses?

Joshua D. Drake

> 
> It actually is, as near as I can tell, a bunch of people who are
> convinced that emm-eye-five are out to get them.  The reason Usenet
> became worthless is not just that October never came, but that the
> metal hospitals all got hooked up to it.  Every nutbar freak in the
> world thinks it's their holy duty to cross post to all of creation.
> 
> To add insult to injury, those who are opposed to this sort of
> nonsense forge posts from the above people and cross-post _those_ all
> over hell and creation.  This was a favourite tactic some years ago
> by self-appointed guardians of Usenet.  The idea was that if you
> pissed off the cabal enough, they'd take action of some unspecified
> type which would solve the problem in a way that nobody was ever able
> to quite explain.  It was never anything better than vigilantism, but
> now it's just vandalism.
> 
> Anyway, I guess we'll just keep moderating and hope the failure to
> get past moderation will cause the paranoid nutbars and their
> antagonists to go somewhere else.  Some days I hate the Internet :)
> 
> A
> 


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