There's a lot of good sharing going on here, but the volume of Get Rich/Get
Horny/Get Virus postings is very annoying. Not that this is unique to this
newsgroup. Is there some overseeing presence that can delete these annoying
posts?

 

"wamaruna" <wamaruna@***.net> wrote in message
news:vcwRb.787$gl2.303@lakeread05...
> There's a lot of good sharing going on here, but the volume of Get
Rich/Get
> Horny/Get Virus postings is very annoying. Not that this is unique to
this
> newsgroup. Is there some overseeing presence that can delete these
annoying
> posts?

This group isn't moderated, but some are.

The Microsoft Patch Virus... is perpetuated by users opening the virus...
it'll stop when human stupidity does.


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"wamaruna" <wamaruna@***.net> wrote in message
news:vcwRb.787$gl2.303@lakeread05...
> There's a lot of good sharing going on here, but the volume of Get
Rich/Get
> Horny/Get Virus postings is very annoying. Not that this is unique to
this
> newsgroup. Is there some overseeing presence that can delete these
annoying
> posts?

Alt.autos.hyundai is an unmoderated Usenet group but I assure you each and
every one of the off topic posts are reported to the appropriate
authorities.

 

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:46:13 -0000, Liddle Feesh staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> "wamaruna" <wamaruna@***.net> wrote in message
> news:vcwRb.787$gl2.303@lakeread05...
>> There's a lot of good sharing going on here, but the volume of Get
>> Rich/Get Horny/Get Virus postings is very annoying. Not that this is
>> unique to this newsgroup. Is there some overseeing presence that can
>> delete these annoying posts?

No. Welcome to Usenet. Usenet is a distributed organization composed
of everyone who runs a newsswerver, and not every news admin hates spam.
Some of them don't care, some of them are too overworked to care, some
unscrupulous admins make money off spam. (And this isn't a "board",
it's a newsgroup.)

> This group isn't moderated, but some are.

Moderation isn't a cureall. The web-based forums at
http://newtiburon.com/ are moderated, but that doesn't stop the forum
denizens from behaving like illiterate idiots. Not too much spam there,
but the user interface is a total PITA.

FWIW, the only time I see spam on alt.autos.hyundai is when well-meaning
people follow up to spam and quote the spam. The admin at
news.cis.dfn.de is doing his job of culling all messages with a
Breidbart Index that's too high or messages that contain the Microsoft
Worm-O-The-Week, and I thank him for it.

--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
The early bird who catches the worm works for someone who comes in late
and owns the worm farm. --Travis McGee
Hire me! http://crow202.dyndns.org/~mhgraham/resume/

 

Yeah, I like the old forums at NT. The new forum GUI is ugly and
doesn't load correctly half the time.

On 27 Jan 2004 19:46:33 GMT, Dances With Crows
<danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@usa.net> wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:46:13 -0000, Liddle Feesh staggered into the
>Black Sun and said:
>> "wamaruna" <wamaruna@***.net> wrote in message
>> news:vcwRb.787$gl2.303@lakeread05...
>>> There's a lot of good sharing going on here, but the volume of Get
>>> Rich/Get Horny/Get Virus postings is very annoying. Not that this is
>>> unique to this newsgroup. Is there some overseeing presence that can
>>> delete these annoying posts?
>
>No. Welcome to Usenet. Usenet is a distributed organization composed
>of everyone who runs a newsswerver, and not every news admin hates spam.
>Some of them don't care, some of them are too overworked to care, some
>unscrupulous admins make money off spam. (And this isn't a "board",
>it's a newsgroup.)
>
>> This group isn't moderated, but some are.
>
>Moderation isn't a cureall. The web-based forums at
>http://newtiburon.com/ are moderated, but that doesn't stop the forum
>denizens from behaving like illiterate idiots. Not too much spam there,
>but the user interface is a total PITA.
>
>FWIW, the only time I see spam on alt.autos.hyundai is when well-meaning
>people follow up to spam and quote the spam. The admin at
>news.cis.dfn.de is doing his job of culling all messages with a
>Breidbart Index that's too high or messages that contain the Microsoft
>Worm-O-The-Week, and I thank him for it.