James Gray
6/5/2009 11:20:00 PM
On Jun 5, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Aaron Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Eric Hodel<drbrain@segment7.net>
> wrote:
>> On Jun 5, 2009, at 14:42, James Gray wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jun 5, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It seems the gateway is passing a lot more spam these days.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I'm leery to do any detection because I suspect it would
>>> become a
>>> maintenance nightmare as posters ask, why was my message blocked?
>>> So, if we
>>> want to go that route, we probably need to pass it to a maintainer
>>> with more
>>> time to watch over it first.
>>>
>>> If we all agree it's become more of a hinderance than it's worth,
>>> I can
>>> certainly shut it down.
>>
>> For the record, I wasn't even considering suggesting this.
>
> Well I'll be the bad guy then. I'd totally suggest that.
>
> Personally, I'm about -> <- close to just sending all email from the
> gateway into my trash folder. This is the only list I subscribe to
> (about 25) which allows non-members to post without any authentication
> or moderator approval. The result is I get much more spam via
> ruby-talk then all my other lists combined.
The gateway has been around for many years. It joins the two
communities as one.
I imagine that was more important in the past when there were a much
smaller number of people on both sides. Still, I know some of our
Usenet friends very well by now and would really miss their posts.
Of course, this is obviously a tradeoff. We get some spam due to the
gateway and it seems to be going up. We obviously need to weight
these issues and decide what is important to us.
James Edward Gray II