Re: Spam: process the web archives?
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:29:23PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > Many people on debian-user are very happy to be able to read that list
> > as a newsgroup, in order to avoid having to subscribe to a high-volume
> > list.
>
> That's a bogus argument. You can also avoid having to subscribe to a
> high-volume list by reading the list archives at lists.debian.org.
... which, let's be frank, is an intensely tedious experience for
regular use.
> Peter Palfrader wote:
> > I think the gate to Usenet is a valuable service.
>
> Yes, to spammers!
>
> We should serve our users, not the spammers.
Search debian-user archives for people looking for Usenet gates for
Debian lists, and being pointed to them. It comes up frequently.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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