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On 02/10/2021 15.17, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 2021-10-01 12:52, Carlos E. R. wrote:
There was one that posted thousand of random generated trash per hour.
Yes, and in the email world there were the advertising droids (read scammers) who had automated mailing, hundreds every minuet, address scraping services and resellers ... scumbags, scumbags. Calling them 'troll's would be granting them status.
This time the admin acted when we emailed him, but then he appeared on another group, changing the patterns so that killfilling him became impossible.
Yes, yes and yes, and we had that with email until we developed software that recognised these 'outbursts' and other automated tools. SpamAssassin is one example of delivering that in highly reconfigurable form to the end use as well as the 'last mile' ISP. But then again, Postscript delivered quality, high capacity, professional software that also allowed for protective database integration. This was a FOSS kludge, it was robust, high end professional grade software, security vetted. This is backbone-grade software (perhaps more so than some closed-source we have on backbone routers).
But then again, applications such as Thunderbird which has anti spam features in email, doesn't allow them in the news section. And not going to happen, almost nobody develops for news. I can not mark a news post as spam. There is no filtering.
But what would a cleaned up "troll-free" USENET deliver?
That's up to me. But I'm denied the tools. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))