Jerry Learn (learn at u.washington.edu) wrote:
: In article <9f5j66.gsg.ln at wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de>, Cornelius Krasel
: <krasel at wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
: > dhunt02 at emory.edu wrote:
: > > is there anyone in charge of bionet.general that can remove all these
: > > addvertisment postings?
: >
: > When I talked to Dave Kristofferson about this problem, he insisted that
: > bionet.general should be unmoderated. As a result, the signal-to-noise
: > ratio approximates zero.
: >
: > Maybe the current bionet maintainers might reverse their viewpoint.
: >
: Times have indeed changed. Four or five years ago when I first subscribed
: to bionet.general there was virtually no SPAM and each inappropriate
: posting was chastized severely by Dave. It is probably way past time for
: this group to become moderated. There still may be hope that useful
: discussions may be persued here.
That would work for people who receive the group via news. However, from what
I can tell, most of the spam is actually unsolicited commercial/bulk email
directed to the companion mailling list so, unless both are moderated, the
problem will not be fixed for people who get the info via the list
rick
