On Dec 11, 2:28 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:23:43 -0800, Paul McGuire wrote: > > On Dec 11, 5:59 am, dfg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Breakthrough - How To Turn Your Dull Website into Money Making Website > > <snip> > > > I was surprised at how effectively the spam posting the other day, > > "Jesus in the Quran" was masked and defused by a reply titled "J in the > > Q". It seems this might be a simple tool for cleaning up some of the > > spam posting clutter, just by "changing the subject" (double entendre > > not intentional, it just happened). Instead of these breathless, > > shouting subjects full of '#' signs and capital letters, we just > > acronymify them to "H T T Y D W into M M W" by posting a reply and > > editing the subject. > > > Could this work? It seems too simple. > > I don't get it. I simply don't understand -- why do you want to reply to > the spam in the first place, with or without the same subject??? > > My ISP does a good job at filtering the spam from this newsgroup. If > yours does not, I feel your pain, but rather than replying to the spam > and changing the subject, how about if you just don't reply at all? > > -- > Steven.
When viewing in Google Groups, the original post is masked by subsequent posts with a different subject. My ISP's news server only works for me when I am connected locally, not when I am travelling. So I've moved over to just using Google Groups for viewing and interacting with newsgroups. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
