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. >