[arachne] Famous Last Words (was Spam, Last Word)

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> Other than the canned ham/meat product on the market in the USA,
> most people on the internet, when asked "What is spam?" will usually
> answer "unwanted, unsolicited email".  Anyway...

And how would you then call "unwanted, unsolicited messages in a web
forum"?

> If robot trojan programs that automatically subscribed to email lists were
> a big problem,

Hopeless - I do not know how many times I have to state that we are not
talking about email here. Is your brain capacity too limited to
understand what a forum is?

>  Take some advice, go to subscriber post only, and make
> subscribers authenticate themselves rather than the typical "open forum"
> that many web based lists use...an open invitation.

With the obvious result that spammers would only need to change a
setting in their robot, whereas normal visitors would get pissed off.
No, thank you!

> Wiz is done on this one...good luck!

And may you stop talking about things you do not know anything about in
the future!

Udo

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