On 01/01/12 11:29, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 12/31/2011 6:12 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> Because these lists don't pre-screen posts. > > On the contrary.
I stand corrected. Careless phrasing on my part - posts to these lists aren't reviewed by humans before publishing. <snipped> This subject comes up frequently (sadly). Yes there are some very effective filters in place (they block approx 2.5K posts a day) - but the low ham blockage comes at a price well known to the companies that dwell at digitalg@ngster, w1ldfire and other "blackhat" Scum Of the Earth educational sites[*1]. So approx 10% of the new spam gets through - enough to make money for a few unscrupulous people. People should mark the spam[*2] as such - which *will* improve the filters, and notify Google/Bing/Yandex etc - which will, eventually, remove the financial incentive for spamming in the first place. If people don't want to buy Black Hat SEO services because it gets them penalised by the search engines, then the filters will only have to deal with the less motivated spammers. The search results will then be more relevant, and the lists will have a higher signal to noise ratio. Everybody worthwhile wins then. Cheers [*1] Neither of the sites (whose names I've slightly disguised) are purely for black hats - it's just where their main revenue comes from, and that their (private) forums are useful indicators of spamming trends. [*2] Online eg:-http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/12/msg01751.html and hit the button OR by bouncing it to:- report-lists...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4effc0da.3060...@gmail.com
