Mail Archives: djgpp/1995/07/27/10:31:09
> > + With properly adjusted software at the moderator(s) no phone sex
> > "spam" or "Make Money Fast" posts will get through. Forged
> > approvals can be detected (PGPmoose) and such articles canceled
> > automatically and immediately (and never sent to the mailing list).
>
> There aren't too many of these. If you think otherwise, check out
> alt.programmer.msdos (sp?) which is *really* polluted IMHO.
I'll say---we didn't even get that randomly named and addressed
nationalistic spam.
> > (2) If you must answer such posts, or FAQs, (which is a bad idea) then
> > answer by email only;
>
> In the absence of regular FAQ postings, I disagree. These serve a
> purpose of pointing newcomers to the FAQ and reminding others about some
> possibly obscure bugs/features which they long ago forgot. At least that
> is what it does to me.
And when people do post off-topic messages, we can always send them
private email redirecting them to more appropriate groups/lists.
> Btw, AFAIK, the main reason of creating a newsgroup was to allow people
> to read postings more selectively (I wouldn't know, because I still read
> the mailing list). Creating the group did make the noise a bit higher
Me too; but wasn't there also something about DJ wanting to ease the load
on Clarkson's (djgpp-dominated) listserv?
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