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  • [cov] Spam adaptation test - please ignore

    From Subcommandante XDelta@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 9 17:45:49 2023
    This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.

    Whilst using:

    https://www.i2pn2.org/

    and

    https://www.eternal-september.org/

    to weather the spam storm, however, I'm still monitoring my c.o.v.
    newsfeed via my NewsGroupDirect (NGD) block account, out of morbid
    curiousity, which the admins of such, most certainly, are not on top
    of things, and there's been circa 62K spams since the 28th of
    November.

    I just blindly scoop up all the spam and move it to a SPAM folder, and
    then filter it for a few c.o.v specific keywords to see if there has
    been some baby bathwater collateral damage.

    A few of the spams do reference "comp.os.vms" but they are relatively
    rare.

    Anyway, FWIW, the spam adaptation test is to see whether adding a
    fixed prefix to the subject line will make it easy to filter, using
    only one keyword, rathering the fishing for posts with multiple
    keywords.

    That's about it!

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  • From Subcommandante XDelta@21:1/5 to vlf@star.enet.dec.com on Sat Dec 9 17:47:56 2023
    On Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:45:49 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta <vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

    This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.

    This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Subcommandante XDelta@21:1/5 to vlf@star.enet.dec.com on Sat Dec 9 21:11:30 2023
    On Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:45:49 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta <vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

    This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.

    Whilst using:

    https://www.i2pn2.org/

    and

    https://www.eternal-september.org/

    to weather the spam storm, however, I'm still monitoring my c.o.v.
    newsfeed via my NewsGroupDirect (NGD) block account, out of morbid >curiousity, which the admins of such, most certainly, are not on top
    of things, and there's been circa 62K spams since the 28th of
    November.

    I just blindly scoop up all the spam and move it to a SPAM folder, and
    then filter it for a few c.o.v specific keywords to see if there has
    been some baby bathwater collateral damage.

    A few of the spams do reference "comp.os.vms" but they are relatively
    rare.

    Anyway, FWIW, the spam adaptation test is to see whether adding a
    fixed prefix to the subject line will make it easy to filter, using
    only one keyword, rathering the fishing for posts with multiple
    keywords.

    That's about it!

    Conclusion: it's a kludge, but it does enable finding the wheat in the
    chaff.

    So RFC: If everyone commits to the discipline of using an agreed
    prefix, such as [cov] to the subject line, then signal is far less
    likely to fall through the cracks (abusing too many metaphors) when
    engaging in bulk spam management operations.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Subcommandante XDelta@21:1/5 to vlf@star.enet.dec.com on Sat Dec 9 20:15:17 2023
    On Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:47:56 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta <vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:45:49 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta ><vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

    This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.

    This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.

    This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Subcommandante XDelta@21:1/5 to vlf@star.enet.dec.com on Sat Dec 9 20:16:41 2023
    On Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:15:17 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta <vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:47:56 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta ><vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:45:49 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta >><vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

    This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.

    This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.

    This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.

    (dang!) This is a spam adaptation test (with correct spelling), please
    ignore.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Subcommandante XDelta on Sat Dec 9 09:48:52 2023
    On 12/9/23 04:11, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:
    Conclusion: it's a kludge, but it does enable finding the wheat in the
    chaff.

    "kludge" is probably an apt description.

    So RFC: If everyone commits to the discipline of using an agreed
    prefix, such as [cov] to the subject line, then signal is far less
    likely to fall through the cracks (abusing too many metaphors) when
    engaging in bulk spam management operations.

    Relying on people to follow a process is prone to error. It's a matter
    of when someone will forget / it will fail. There is effectively no
    "if" involved.

    No, I don't have a better solution, save for filtering all GG. :-(



    --
    Grant. . . .

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  • From Subcommandante XDelta@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 10 11:05:34 2023
    In article <f2c8ni1c22maeok5sm7kt8c85a5efc10to@4ax.com>,
    vlf@star.enet.dec.com says...

    On Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:15:17 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta <vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:47:56 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta ><vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:45:49 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta >><vlf@star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

    This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.

    This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.

    This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.

    (dang!) This is a spam adaptation test (with correct spelling), please ignore.

    Just a Steve Gibson (GRC) Gravity 3.0 Mod Newsreader Client, for
    Windows, test.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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