Nuxx:D26dd882-8344-4a97-9225-c7910035deb6@h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.config,uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: urcm-moderators@chiark.greenend.org.uk Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:28:25 -0700 (PDT) References: <3rov45dq3mn0rd03bb4ld757vce94jv7r6@4ax.com>   <02n3551con7hmntinv6r2ueq3qf0ia88e9@4ax.com>  <528455l1u5mo1k1023n5vclfl3v52ctvu0@4ax.com> Lines: 46 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.163.209.43 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246904906 30895 127.0.0.1 (6 Jul 2009 18:28:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 18:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.163.209.43; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3503 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.config:55625 uk.rec.cycling:6823

On Jul 6, 5:28=A0pm, jms  wrote: > On 06 Jul 2009 15:25:57 +0100 (BST), Ian Jackson > > > >  wrote: > >In article <02n3551con7hmntinv6r2ueq3qf0ia8...@4ax.com>, > >jms =A0 wrote: > >>Indeed - I suspect he is testing the final version and has already put > >>known names in to it. > > >For the avoidance of any doubt: that confuses chiark's email > >spamfiltering system with the moderation software. =A0 > > >chiark's email spamfilter (a) is largely automatic, (b) has no manual > >configuration made for Judith or other urc trolls, (c) has been > >running in roughly similar form since 1999, (d) will not be used for > >filtering submissions to the moderated group, (e) is bypassed anyway > >if you email postmaster@ (to allow people to report email problems). > > >The moderation software (a) will be largely manual, (b) has not been > >set up at all yet, and (c) will start out with an empty blacklist (as > >the moderators have indicated several times). > > Please will you point out what it was in my email which caused the > effect. =A0I suggest you post the reason =A0here so that other people wil= l > not fall foul of the same "rules". =A0If you knew that it would bin > hotmail addresses (if it does that ) =A0- then you should have said so. > > It is indeed a pity that you had not tested the receipt of emails to > the moderation address which you publicised for use. =A0It of course > meant that any number of emails may have been sent to the moderators - > but were binned. > > Do you know how many other emails the spam system filtered out in this > way? > > Will all emails to the moderation address =A0go through your over > zealous spam filtering system? > > Do you think that is acceptable?

I see Jackson's still calling people silly names like "troll" when he doesn't agree with them. He clearly thinks he's something special, but from what I've seen, the average dog is more intelligent.