In article <NLe*eCsIn at news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
timc at chiark.greenend.org.uk (Tim Cutts) writes:
> Also, it increases the volume of NNTP traffic, not decreases it. This
> means:
Spambot increases feed volume, but not cleanfeed, which highly
decrease the trafic by simply rejecting articles. But cleanfeed
uses CPU time. It's a choice.
> I have seen recent figures suggesting that 40% of NNTP traffic is
> spam, and a further 40% is the spam-bot generated cancel messages,
> leaving only 20% genuine articles. For this reason a large number of
> spam bot sites have given up.
That's right, one year ago, it was 33/33/33 and now it
is around 40/40/20 on regular servers but 10/10/80 on
cleanfeed using servers.
> Moderation is a solution which does not
> penalise people on mailing lists and those on low bandwidth sites.
Yes, but it takes time to moderate a big newsgroup.
As a moderator of some of the fr.* newsgroups, I know what
this means...
François.
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