In article <1b648cf1-ee24-4132-9c15-b293d12907cf@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Paul McGuire <ptmcg@austin.rr.com> wrote: >On Dec 11, 5:59 am, dfg <sofiya...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Breakthrough - How To Turn Your Dull Website into Money Making Website > >I was surprised at how effectively the spam posting the other day, >"Jesus in the Quran" was masked and defused by a reply titled "J in >the Q". It seems this might be a simple tool for cleaning up some of >the spam posting clutter, just by "changing the subject" (double >entendre not intentional, it just happened). Instead of these >breathless, shouting subjects full of '#' signs and capital letters, >we just acronymify them to "H T T Y D W into M M W" by posting a reply >and editing the subject. > >Could this work? It seems too simple. LL YR VWL R BLNG T S -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Typing is cheap. Thinking is expensive." --Roy Smith

"Paul McGuire" <ptmcg@austin.rr.com> wrote in message news:640971a3-61bf-44cc-8b95-754425008b29@j20g2000hsi.googlegroups.com... | On Dec 11, 2:28 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st...@REMOVE-THIS- | | > My ISP does a good job at filtering the spam from this newsgroup. If | > yours does not, I feel your pain, but rather than replying to the spam | > and changing the subject, how about if you just don't reply at all? | When viewing in Google Groups, the original post is masked by | subsequent posts with a different subject. My ISP's news server only | works for me when I am connected locally, not when I am travelling. | So I've moved over to just using Google Groups for viewing and | interacting with newsgroups. As far as I know, that is unusual behavior. In Outlook Express and, I believe, other readers I have used, the original subject is the one displayed. And if I have already downloaded the original title and marked the post as read, any reponse is just spam that prolongs the junk. So please do not do this. tjr