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From: Kenneth Tilton on 13 Jul 2010 23:24 Xah Lee wrote: > • Death of Newsgroups > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ2/death_of_newsgroups.html > > plain text version follows. > > -------------------------------------------------- > Death of Newsgroups > > Xah Lee, 2010-07-13 > > Microsoft is closing down their newsgroups. See: > microsoft.public.windows.powershell. > > I use comp.lang.lisp, comp.emacs since about 1999. Have been using > them pretty much on a weekly basis in the past 10 years. Starting > about 2007, the traffic has been increasingly filled with spam, and > the posters are always just the 20 or 30 known faces. I think perhaps > maybe no more than 100 different posters a year. Since this year or > last year, they are some 95% spam. Forest. Trees. Please note order. Case in point: twelve weeks ago His Timness mentioned this on comp.lang.lisp; http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/ Now we have this, a port of a desktop app to the web: http://teamalgebra.com/ It happened fast because http://qooxdoo.org/lets me program the Web without bothering with HTML and CSS and browser variation as if I were using a framework like GTk. I learned about qooxdoo... on comp.lang.lisp. The moral? If you look for the spam, you'll find it. kt -- http://www.teamalgebra.com "The best Algebra tutorial program I have seen... in a class by itself." Macworld
From: Steven D'Aprano on 13 Jul 2010 23:40 On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:24:12 -0400, Kenneth Tilton wrote: > The moral? If you look for the spam, you'll find it. And if you *don't* look for spam, you can be sure that some goose will reply to it and get it past your filters. Thanks for that Kenneth, if that is your name and you're not a Xah Lee sock-puppet. Followups set to a black hole. -- Steven
From: Kenneth Tilton on 14 Jul 2010 11:19 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:24:12 -0400, Kenneth Tilton wrote: > >> The moral? If you look for the spam, you'll find it. > > And if you *don't* look for spam, you can be sure that some goose will > reply to it and get it past your filters. Thanks for that Kenneth, if > that is your name and you're not a Xah Lee sock-puppet. Let me see if I have this right. Your technique for reducing unwanted traffic is to openly insult one of the participants? That is how you clean things up? Because most people on Usenet respond well to personal insults and hush up? I have so much to learn! Or was it this? > > Followups set to a black hole. > > That works? Amazing. Here, I'll show you what spam looks like: my steadily-improving revolution in learning Algebra: http://teamalgebra.com/ kt -- http://www.stuckonalgebra.com "The best Algebra tutorial program I have seen... in a class by itself." Macworld
From: John Bokma on 14 Jul 2010 12:20
Kenneth Tilton <kentilton(a)gmail.com> writes: fup2 poster > Let me see if I have this right. Your technique for reducing unwanted > traffic is to openly insult one of the participants? Heh, or just ploinking them (done). Or making them cry like a little baby: http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/t2/harassment.html (it had an effect for a while :-D ) -- The John Bokma guy j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development |