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On 02 Sep 2003, Ripon climbed into "rec.food.drink.tea", opened the box of crayons and scribbled the following:

This group is, by its very charter, unmoderated. The best "control" for spammers is to simply ignore them.

"Josh Erlanger" has ever posted anything else to this newsgroup but the obvious spam message. He has, however, posted similar spam to rec.food.restaurants and to biz.marketplace.

To reply to his spam only creates a thread where the only thing that *should* have existed, is one random message.

And this group is FAR from in being in danger of being taken over by spam. I've seen FAR worse.

Derek

So essentially you are telling us that because elsewhere somewhere a lot of bad things have happened, we should not complain about reprehensible acts happening here too.

Hmmm...

On 02 Sep 2003, Julie C. appeared before the congregation in "rec.food.drink.tea" assembled, and proclaimed:

That is one of the worst cases of selective comprehension I've ever seen.

Derek

Wonderful! This way every other ones seem suddenly "ok".

On 02 Sep 2003, Julie C. appeared before the congregation in "rec.food.drink.tea" assembled, and proclaimed:

Not quite. I'm still trying to figure out how a suggestion to ignore obvious spammers who will not read bitchy replies gets drawn into the assertion that "we should just accept it because it's worse elsewhere."

It may make you feel good to chastise a "true" spammer, but it does not good to stop them.

Derek

That's exactly the reasonning you should have made before writing "I've seen FAR worse."

On 02 Sep 2003, Julie C. appeared before the congregation in "rec.food.drink.tea" assembled, and proclaimed:

And that statement makes absolutely no sense.

Derek