🚀 go-pugleaf

Thus spake Jim McIntosh <jim@american.edu>:
>We have started work to implement the following:
>
>*  The delay on the feed from our news server to the gateway has been
>increased from one hour to three hours. This will delay posts, but
>since most spams are cancelled fairly quickly it will stop most spams
>before they get to the gateway and are distributed to the mailing lists.

This will help sometimes... but some of the better-known repeat spammers
are known to work overnight so their articles will have propagated quite
far by the time the anti-spammers spot it.

>*   We will implement a check on incoming articles. If the same article
>appears more than ten times in a two hour period we will consider it a
>spam and will not feed it to the gateway.

Unfortunately, there are ways around this )-: (there was quite a bit
of discussion in news.admin.net-abuse.misc about ways of avoiding
automatic spam-detectors )-:

Doug, at a square dance convention where quite a number of people
recognized his "Green Card Lawyers" t-shirt...

--
Doug Sewell (doug@cc.ysu.edu) (http://cc.ysu.edu/doug)

If you had a good enough newsreader, you wouldn't -need- moderated groups.
 -- Dave Hayes