On 2/22/22 12:15 PM, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
On 22/02/2022 23:01, Simon Michael wrote:
On 2/21/22 12:12 PM, redst...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Martin or anyone else with privileges: deleting the spam in the top
20 threads would be awesome. Unless I'm reading it wrong and Berlusconi
has indeed taken up plain text accounting.
I have been catching up on discussion here. I read via NNTP (Thunderbird
+ news.gmane.io) and the spam is quite annoying.
I never used Thunderbird for reading a newsgroup, but news clients
usually have a function to mark messages as "deleted". Marking ad dozen
or so messages takes a fraction of a second.
The Beancount mailing list is hosted on Google Groups. If you perceive
the spam problem as so important, why don't you bring the problem up
with Google? They are the only one that can do something to improve the
spam filtering.
I don't think that asking the Beancount maintainers to manually moderate
the list in the limited amount of time they can dedicate to Beancount is
a sensible thing to do.
Hi Dan,
I'm sorry that the first time I post anything here in years, it sounds
like a complaint! And here comes a reply that might sound suspiciously
like a rant! :)
Let me try to correct: please don't take it as a complaint, and I'm not
asking anything of anyone. I simply mean to contribute a data point to
this discussion: the spam is actually still a problem, for at least this
subscriber.
Here are more details. I have a new resolution to keep up with the great
discussion here. I'm working through the archives, and I also check for
new posts daily. The last week or two, most days I've seen nothing but
one or more new posts from the same spammer. To mark them read in
Thunderbird is tedious, not very quick - you must give TB time because
of some bug - and hard to do without seeing a screenful of the spammer's
rant.
(Someone here might want to say, give up Thunderbird/NNTP. I understand,
but please don't; newsreader + gmane archives are a fantastic power tool
for browsing mail lists. If you have a realistic replacement newsreader
in mind, I'll listen.)
I don't subscribe to any other that delivers spam to me on a regular
basis, though I can understand the desire to keep participation barriers
low. If the list wants to live with it, I'll figure out some solution on
my end.
Apologies, best wishes :)
-Simon
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