Re: A Green Game!!!

From: "Keith M. Lucas" <sillywiz@excession.no.demon.spam.co.please.uk>

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In article <3337B689.4EF@taz.dra.hmg.gb>,
mlwilliams  <mlwilliams@taz.dra.hmg.gb> wrote:
>Ok, so we all know this is crap. Possibly if you can get enough
>albanians on the net though you might make some money from it.
>
>My real point is that all this pyramid scheme shit we keep getting here
>from sad waste-of-spacers contain a collection of key-words vital to
>getting the scam across. I'm waiting for somebody to write a piece of
>code that can pick up on these and auto-bin any such missives.

It's already happening. Just think -- the shite you currently see is
that which has either a) not yet reached a cancelbot or b) can't be
detected by a cancelbot.  Cancellation of articles based on
overposting a number of identical messages passed 100,000 a month a
long time ago.

The schemes you see are what's left over _AFTER_ the cancelbots have
had a go.

Actually the problem with kicking on keywords doesn't work too well --
it's noticable that most spam adverts contain a US phone number, but
this doesn't mean that most postings with a US phone number are
spam. Likewise nuking stuff like that could kick entirely innocent
postings. Killing postings to, more than 20 groups say, can have no
comeback since there is no reasonable explaination for doing this, and
no argument can be made for it being content-based cancelling, which
no-one wants -- it doesn't stop some people ( who actually get paid
for managing this sort of thing) cancelling some of these by hand ( we
don't yet trust filters to do this ).

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References

A Green Game!!!
pdmarzec@acsu.buffalo.edu
Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: A Green Game!!!
mlwilliams <mlwilliams@taz.dra.hmg.gb>
Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000