Re: To Nana Re: SPAM COMPLAINTS - <harryvn@psi.net>

On Fri, 5 Sep 1997 18:18:02 -0400, jeanne
<tlj...@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU> wrote:

>Nana, like Joan said, DON'T GIVE UP :-)

Yes! Don't give up!
Everytime someone gives up reading or posting to this group or any
other group because of the spam, the spammers have won again!

If you want to freely communicate with other people, you'll have to
deal with idiots and spammers.
If everyone leaves the newsgroups because of the spam and moves to
mailing lists, the spammers will spam mailing lists (already happens
today). If the list-owner then increases the security of the list the
spammers will even subscribe in order to spam...

And if you quit public communication altogether, they'll still be able
to spam your eMail...

And suddenly you're stuck with "Read-Only-WWW"... :(

Don't give up! Fight them!

>Here is some proof things WILL get better!

Although it may look as if armageddon is already there on Usenet
(about 1.4 Million Spams and Spamcancels per week), the situation will
get better, as soon as more newsserver admins use better anti-spam
measures than cancels (NoCeM, Spamdetectors).
And there will soon be a few improvements to current Usenet (the mod.*
hierarchy; various proposals to make Usenet more resistant to abuse
(commonly known as Usenet 2)).

>I and many others complain daily to ISPs of spammers -
>and it DOES do some good :-)
>(I'm sure you all saw the refered to spam in this NG today)

Yes, it often does some good!
The more people complain the better.

--=20
Christian Sommerer   E-Mail: elr...@gmx.net
>Wie kann ich jemanden finden, der gerade =FCber Metronet online ist?
Immer dem Gefluche nach.
 - Thomas Broda in de.alt.provider.metronet

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