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 :(

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Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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