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" <patrick@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.kletnieks@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.