2 Jun
2011
2 Jun
'11
11:09 a.m.
On 6/2/11 2:05 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Very few in the groups that I read, with the notable exception of
comp.lang.fortran. It seems the spammers don't consider Usenet to be
profitable anymore.
This shouldn't be surprising, as the people who use Usenet are likely
to be smart, and smart people rarely, if ever, respond to spam with dollars.
My news server
receives, on average, 34,000 messages per day. I get a
full feed EXCEPT the binaries groups, which account for most of the
traffic on Usenet.
[...]
Usenet, much to my utter shock and delight, is
still very much alive.
Yes, but how many of those 34k messages are spam messages of some
description? (if someone can point me to a decent spam filter or
Scorefile for Pan,
I'd be most grateful... Usenet suffers greatly from its abysmally poor
signal-to-noise ratio...)
It does, in many groups, but spam isn't as much a percentage of that
noise as it used to be.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL