Can the spam!

[Gamin]

Yep, every time I come here these days, I get put off by the spam. I also see stories, but there's no place here (or shouldn't be) for the kind of spam that's showing up here. I'll admit I haven't posted any story content here in some time, but since only 1-2 people commented last time I posted something, I don't think I've been missed. (That was the year they cancelled the ASC Awards...or the first year, if they continued it.) Doesn't somebody moderate this group? There needs to be a moderator deleting this stuff, IMO.
Gamin

Maybe we could discourage the spammers by actually posting something
here? Stories? Discussions? Links to interesting sites?
<i>Recipes???</i>
-sj-

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Post by Gamin
Yep, every time I come here these days, I get put off by the spam. I also
see stories, but there's no place here (or shouldn't be) for the kind of
spam that's showing up here. I'll admit I haven't posted any story content
here in some time, but since only 1-2 people commented last time I posted
something, I don't think I've been missed. (That was the year they
cancelled the ASC Awards...or the first year, if they continued it.)
Doesn't somebody moderate this group? There needs to be a moderator
deleting this stuff,=
IMO.
Gamin

I see no spam at all. Some newsservers are simply not as good as others
... but "one man's spam is another man's essential message", which is why
it is {beep}{beep}{beep}{beep}ing annoying that my hopeless ISP simply
deletes all emails THEY think are spam and there's no way to check or
retrieve those message. X-(

Very few Usenet newsgroups have moderators, and most cannot have them
since they weren't set-up that way to start with. Usually (but not always)
the moderated ones say so in the title.

You also can't really delete messages from Usenet newsgroups - once it's
posted it quickly replicates throughout the chain of servers (yes, you can
send a delete command, but that simply chases the original message around
the chain of servers and many people will still have seen the original
message and some servers don't recognise the delete command anyway).

[Alan Heah]

I've learnt over too many years, to automatically give spam minimal
attention and memory, before clearing it as so much rubbish.
I still manually do so every day from my email inbox, just in case I
spot something actually meaningful that accidentally landed in the
wrong folders.
In effect, the amount of love I give to communications that matter is
inversely proportional to the duration that pointless spam spends with
me.

Yes, some communication can be subjective, seen as worthless by some
and worthy by others.
But then there's that typical mountain of trash that passes through
and pollutes our daily online interactions.

I appreciate whoever writes stories and creative stuff here, which
they must have put so much effort into making happen.
Please don't feel any expected quota from me, and thank you for
keepin' 'em comin', as always!