On 7/30/12 10:57 AM, Steven Noble wrote:
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.
Most of the subscribers to the mailing list never post.
...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.
