Saluton John :) John Beckett <[email protected]> skribis: > Google Groups is utterly broken, and the spam tide is very likely to > become overwhelming as other spammers realise how easy it is to screw > us.
I wouldn't be surprised if the spoofed spam grows twofold in the next week :(( I don't know if spammers have a "community", but they're not specially stupid, so probably they will notice sooner or later and start plaguing Google Groups with spam that won't be stopped with the current banning mechanism. > To illustrate: vim_use has 3140 members of which 1247 are banned > spammers (over one third of the member list consists of throw-away > spam accounts). Some of them, GMail accounts... > In the past the mailing list was badly burned when a mail system run > by a volunteer collapsed. It seems unlikely that we will return to a > volunteer-run system, but continuing with Google Groups may become > untenable because I suspect that many of us have a low tolerance for > spam. We should start discussing possible solutions, because this may be unsustainable in months :( -- Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
