The spam to content ratio of this group

[Eric]

is getting very high. Why aren't captcha's used to prevent all of this
noise?

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

is getting very high. Why aren't captcha's used to prevent all of this
noise?

/me opens mouth to make sarcastic comment
/me shuts mouth again


That's like saying "There's a lot of oil slicks washing up onto the
beach. Why don't we put more trashcans by the road to the beach?" What
good do you think captchas will do on a newsgroup?

 

[skip]

Eric> is getting very high. Why aren't captcha's used to prevent all of
Eric> this noise?

Steven> /me opens mouth to make sarcastic comment
Steven> /me shuts mouth again

Steven> That's like saying "There's a lot of oil slicks washing up onto
Steven> the beach. Why don't we put more trashcans by the road to the
Steven> beach?" What good do you think captchas will do on a newsgroup?

Come on over the (e-mail address removed). The water's fine!

 

[Tim Golden]

Eric> is getting very high. Why aren't captcha's used to prevent all of
Eric> this noise?

Steven> /me opens mouth to make sarcastic comment
Steven> /me shuts mouth again

Steven> That's like saying "There's a lot of oil slicks washing up onto
Steven> the beach. Why don't we put more trashcans by the road to the
Steven> beach?" What good do you think captchas will do on a newsgroup?

Come on over the (e-mail address removed). The water's fine!

I was going to say much the same, coupled with a vote of
thanks to the people (person?) who's done all the work to
keep the spam at bay. (part-pun partly intended)

TJG

 

[r]

On 2009-04-01, Eric <[email protected]> wrote:

3) Simply ignoring all posts made from Google Groups works
   quite well.

<sarcasm >Yea, there's no spam in Usenet land </sarcasm > APRIL
FOOLS!!!!