The fix for this issue is trivial. Every new signup should require a sponsor or a deposit of funds into a new member fund. Once a member has made a relevant post regarding a NANOG related item their funds are returned.
If someone spams they forfeit the money and it is used to help defray the costs of attending NANOG for the 99%. If the poster has been sponsored by a current member, said member is flogged in public at the next meeting. ...runs Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2012, at 10:42 AM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patr...@ianai.net> wrote: > I'm sorry Panashe is upset by this rule. Interestingly, "Your search - > Panashe Flack nanog - did not match any documents." So my guess is that a > post from that account has not happened before, meaning the post was > moderated yet still made it through. > > Has anyone done a data mining experiment to see how many posts a month are > from "new" members? My guess is it is a trivial percentage. > > -- > TTFN, > patrick > > > On Jul 30, 2012, at 13:35 , valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:04:36 +0200, Panashe Flack said: >>> list for continued activity. And just for reference - have you guys >>> SEEN the "Linux Kernel Mailing List"? - it gets frequent spam posts >>> and yet is perfectly able to ignore the spam/irrelevant posts and >>> continue on its remit. >> >> For those who don't drink from the Linux-Kernel firehose, it averages >> 1 or 2 spams per day - and anywhere from 500 to 700 postings a day. >> >> As Linus Torvalds said, back when it was averaging 200 a day: >> >> "Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who >> expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will >> read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about >> a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the >> individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together >> really well." >> >> The list managers do an incredible job of stopping spam - but even if >> 50 or 75 a day got through, they'd just be lost in the noise. You're >> skipping >> several hundred messages a day, skipping a few more isn't any different. >> > >
