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Posted by Art Todesco on April 22, 2008, 6:30 pm
Sorry if this reply came through,
however, I never saw the posting.
I think my provider is playing games
again. So, here it is <maybe> again:
Bob wrote:
>> This idea will not eliminate spam, but I believe it would
>> eliminate much of the frustration associated with it.
>>
>> For those of us who make legitimate posts, we would start the
>> subject / topic with a dash followed by a space, like this: - my
>> topic. (As seen in the subject of this post).
>>
>> Then the legitimate posts will be shown first on the list of
>> topics, assuming topics are sorted on the subjects. All the spam
>> would follow, and we would not have to look through posts that do
>> not begin with the dash blank.
>>
>> It might take a few weeks for the procedure to become known, but
>> if we all used it, our frustration with spam would surely
>> decrease.
>>
>> Further, I suggest a sentence at the start of each post, similar
>> to, "Legitimate posts to this NG should begin the topic with a
>> dash followed with a space."
>>
>> If we begin to use this, it should soon be understood by
>> legitimate on topic posters and we could skip all the posts that
>> don't start this way. After this was firmly established, we
>> could drop the educational sentence.
>>
>> Any comment?
>>
>> Bob-tx
>>
> Well, in spite of the negative comments telling me I am dumb and
> need to learn how to use filters, I still think it is a good idea.
>
> Won't bother you highly educated snobs again.
>
> Bob-tx
>
Actually, Bob, I like your idea. The
only problem is that the spammers
might adapt is also. But, I don't think
that they'd bother to actually read the
group and figure out what is happening.
BTW, I implemented the rules
in Thunderbird that were posted last
week. They do help ... but some
spam still slips through. So, I've
added more rules to catch them. In trying
to filter out all the spam, I find
myself more interested in the quest to
totally eliminate the spam than to read
the content of the group .... and
that ain't good.
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