31 Jan
2002
31 Jan
'02
7:10 p.m.
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, John Lawson wrote:
This latest spam is so blatantly brain-dead (what
*are* these twits
thinking??) that I think they need a good spanking, like having their
website TOSsed, but in general, considering the list's very low spam
freq, it's less work to just hit the Del Button, and not respond at all.
And some of it (the Chinese stuff that's been obviously patiently
translated word-by-word from a Cantonese-English dictionary) is pretty
priceless...
John, I think you're sexy and all but the spam is obviously increasing in
frequency, and if we just let it go for now as you suggest, my guess is
that it'll only get worse. The classiccmp address has been added to some
spammer mailing list. I can feel it. My ass is tingling.
Besides, sure as shit, the day we moderate this is
the day that some
guy's uncle dies and they clean out his storage space with the last Foonly
in it, and the nephew can't get a message thru and it goes to the dump.
The solution is simple. We're not moderating anything. We're just making
the list writeable by subscribers only. If non-subscribers try to post we
can bounce them back a message telling them how to properly post a
message.
Even better, maybe we can provide a web form to submit messages to the
list? We can redirect them to that instead, then it'll be easy for them
to post that they found the first Altair that got "lost" in transit to
Popular Electronics that will be given to the first person who replies and
says they'll pay for shipping.
We can put this up on the classiccmp website with a big sign that says
"POST MESSAGES TO THE CLASSICCMP LIST HERE".
I'll volunteer the programming for this even.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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