Re: The Spammers Have Really Trashed This NG.

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:40:58 -0400
Message-ID:
<4a5a3c48$0$48232$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
Series Expansion wrote:

On Jul 12, 3:23 pm, Andrew Thompson <andrewtho...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jul 13, 4:49 am, markspace <nos...@nowhere.com> wrote:

Karl Uppiano wrote:

The spammers have really trashed this forum, and I can find no effective
way to filter them out. Is there a moderated version of this NG anywhere?

The trick to spammer is to use your killfile (K in Thunderbird) to
remove unwanted threads. As long as you do that proactively, there's
only a few spam each day to remove. It's not too bad.

I did a quick count of spam posts across the first 3
pages of c.l.j.p. as it is represented in GG. The 1st
page had 8, the 2nd 16, and the 3rd 19 out of 30 posts.
That is 43/90, or almost 50%. *

And that was not counting those trollish posts based
on the "Computer Programming Job in CA" idiot thread.


These tiresome personal attacks do not constitute rational arguments
in favor of either Lisp or Java, Andrew.


I don't think he intended to argue Java over Lisp or the other
way around.

For some weird reason I think he arguing about the level of spam
here.

Really weird what one can conclude when reading what one is replying
to.

Arne

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