C-R-M: OT why not semi moderation of newsgroups

1.  For reasons I'm not entirely clear on, it's pretty much impossible
to covert an existing newsgroup from unmoderated to moderated status.
A new comp.robotics.misc.moderated would need to be created.

2.  Are you volunteering for the job of 'semi-moderator'?

If you're volunteering, you could setup your own mailing list that
mirrors non-spam messages to/from c.r.m...  This wouldn't require any
changes to usenet, and allows others to choose which feed they wish to
receive.

- Daniel

Is there a moderated group ?

I think this is why a lot of people turn to web-based member-only
forums these days, usenet is just too poluted and full of antagonists
passing by on a school holiday. Would there be a demand for it here?
I'm not sure, i set up a spare temporary forum to replace this during
the peak spam period and didnt have anyone drop in. If I knew what was
required to either set up a system such as you mention or had the time
to set up a .moderated and moderate it I would lol.

I've noticed that some of the other groups he hit are now clean of his spam
even while this one gets poluted from time to time. I can't help but think
that part of the reason for that is the attention we give to him evey time
we mention it. Perhaps we should just let the subject be silent for awhile ?
Just my 2 cents.

...


Being ignored is the highest form of insult!
DOC

On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 18:42:06 -0400, "Marcus"


You could make a self moderated group like the below cgi one.
Some one could intentionally make a spam flood bot for the group,
but that would be unlikely in the world of general spamming.
Usenet flood spamming is generally not that frequent of an
occurrence.

PLEASE NOTE: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi is a
SELF-MODERATED newsgroup. aa.net and boutell.com are
NOT the originators of the articles and are NOT responsible
for their content.

HOW TO POST to comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi:
http://www.thinkspot.net/ciwac/howtopost.html

comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi:http://www.thinkspot.net/ciwac/howtopost.html

It surprises me as a "force of habit" that USENET still exists. With
increasing bandwidth and the extra afforded by forum systems, why do
people continue to post to spam-ridden plaintext systems?

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:36:51 -0700, CoyoteBoy


It appears that you are a "google poster", and as such, you
probably don't know how nice a plain text news reader can be.
Using google (and most "forum" usenet interfaces), probably half
of what is presented in the window for you to view is
spam/advertising. I don't get that using free agent.

I work from google 90% of the time but I do have access to a normal
NNTP server from my ISP, both have the same level of junk :(