List spam

[Steven D'Aprano]

Alain Ketterlin wrote:

> "Jason Staudenmayer" <jasons at adventureaquarium.com> writes:
> 
>> I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of
>> spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get
>> scanned before it sent to the list?
> 
> I'm using nntp to read this newsgroup (through an academic server).
> No spam at all.


I'm also using nntp (Usenet) and see very little spam. There was a flurry of
about ten *extremely* obnoxious pr0n spams in a row, and the occasional odd
one here or there, but generally I see hardly any.

It is ironic that some people say that the solution to the spam problem is
to move to Google Groups, because most of the spam comes *from* Google
Groups. 


-- 
Steven