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Re: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts
From: Scott Noel-Hemming <frogstarr78 () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:00:20 -0700
On 07/30/2012 10:57 AM, Steven Noble wrote:
Would be an iPhone user to suggest such an idea. Thanks for not implementing this so us peons can learn a thing or two, too.The fix for this issue is trivial. Every new signup should require a sponsor or a deposit of funds into a new member fund. Once a member has made a relevant post regarding a NANOG related item their funds are returned. If someone spams they forfeit the money and it is used to help defray the costs of attending NANOG for the 99%. If the poster has been sponsored by a current member, said member is flogged in public at the next meeting. ...runs Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2012, at 10:42 AM, "Patrick W. Gilmore"<patrick () ianai net> wrote: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.kletnieks () 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.
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- Re: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts Scott Noel-Hemming (Aug 01)
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- Re: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts Robert Drake (Aug 02)
- Re: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts valdis . kletnieks (Aug 02)
- RE: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts Jamie Bowden (Aug 02)
- Re: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts George Herbert (Aug 02)
- Re: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts valdis . kletnieks (Aug 02)
- Re: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts Rhys Rhaven (Aug 02)