On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Charles Calvert<cbciv / yahoo.com> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 12:05:05 -0500, Aaron Turner <synfinatic / gmail.com> > wrote in > <1ca1c1410906071004v7acb4e42xe9d088d349c5457c / mail.gmail.com>: > > [re: requiring comp.lang.ruby users to register with ruby-talk list to > have their posts gatewayed to the list. ¨Β σαιδ ιτ χασναμ> barrier, Frank Senault said it was a big one ...] > > [snip] > >>Simply put, if you don't find my proposed solution workable, then >>please provide a better one which has the impact of stopping the spam >>(keeping the headers while nice, won't accomplish that). > > Aaron, how much spam are you seeing? ¨Β§ν σεειξη οξμω θαξδζυδα> on my news server. ¨Β ασβεγαυσιζ ξεχσζεεδ τθατ ισ υσεδ ζοτθ> gateway propagates a lot of spam, maybe we could find a cleaner > newsfeed instead. As I said, not enough spam to get me to unsubscribe. Used to be about 1 a day, now it seems to be like 3-5. Am I making a bigger deal out of this then it probably warrants at this time? Probably. Like many, I just have a very low threshold for spam nowadays and I'm concerned that the trend seems to be moving in the wrong direction. -- Aaron Turner http://synfin.net/ http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin