Re: When the news server is dead and buried...?

[Jonas Steverud <tvrud@bredband.net>]

mailla <maillaxa@essilor.fr> writes:

> Jonas Steverud <tvrud <at> bredband.net> writes:
>
>> I've decided that I will leave USENET anyway, due to the Spam-problem,
>
> Please don't ! We, as regular Gnus user, have been introduced a major 
> killer-feature to beat spam. It is efficient though quite slow and more
> it works ! 

The problem is not the spam in the group but the spam that is sent to
the email adress I have in the From line. And I don't see any solution
to this. The spammers seems to be incredible stupid, according to what
I've read the The Register¹, they seems to send a spam even to
"JoeRemoveToReplyDoe@nospam.hotmail.com". That means that if I supply
a bogus email address it will only increase the mail traffic on the
'Net and no one will be able to reach me even if they have real/legal
reasons to do so.

By posting on USENET I will receive a lot of spam, I will see a lot of
st00pid comments and a lot of flames. Email lists tends to have a
higher quality since they require people to do a minimum bit of work
to be able to begin to post and people that has given up their interest
in the topic unsubscribes to reduce the amount of email they get. And
the st00pid ones can be kicked out.

(I hate web forums becourse they never are close to USENET's and
mailingslist's threading capabilities and are too close to
chat/IRCs. But web forums are all the vogue in Sweden today, and when
one can get a email digest of the forums it is in a newly invented
format that probably is unreadable even in LookOut Express.)

/Jonas, ranting a bit
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¹  www.theregister.co.uk

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