Re: Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)

On Mon, 05 May 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article
<slrng1torr.733.wookie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Harold Stevens wrote:

In <mZudncXNyM4LFoPVnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> A Watcher:

The spam must be driving people away

1H03 2H03 1H04 2H04 1H05 2H05 1H06 2H06 1H07 2H07 1H08
Avail 18310 20195 18747 15349 15236 18409 18265 14150 12625 17515 9080
Kill 2242 3889 2891 2559 3639 4259 5184 2777 1845 10783 6510

That's up to 5/05/2008:1400UTC. And yes, I have a rather harsh set
of rules in the killfile - and I think you can guess about when I
added a googlegroups.com rule for this group.

Also, I noticed a look of traffic seems to have moved to distro-specific
groups (like alt.os.linux.ubuntu) over the past couple of years.

a.o.l.ubuntu isn't that old, but

2H05 1H06 2H06 1H07 2H07 1H08
Avail 460 2334 4862 15057 25344 15210
Kill 28 174 306 503 2374 7041

and google doesn't carry this group. The problem here is win-turfers.
Several other groups like a.o.l.mandriva and a.o.l.suse aren't that much
better.

Much of the spam orginates from Google Groups (GG), and several longtime
Usenet readers drop GG posts to improve signal (I'm one).

I'm not doing so globally, but in two groups I'm now killing _replies_
to google posts, because some of the clueless can't resist replying to
google-spammers who don't read the group[s] anyway (they merely post
their spam and move on).

I find this group (colm) still very useful without the GG spam.

Agreed

Old guy
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