Re: The advantages of having a moderated newsgroup

On Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 8:37:14 PM UTC-4, Bud wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 7:30:38 PM UTC-4, John Corbett wrote: 
> > On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 5:54:01 AM UTC-5, David Von Pein wrote: 
> > > On Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 1:03:38 PM UTC-5, John Corbett wrote: 
> > > > Primarily it keeps most of the posts on topic and at least somewhat civil. 
> > > > There is another benefit which became apparent this morning in an 
> > > > unmoderated newsgroup I participate in. We have one regular poster who 
> > > > likes to flood the newsgroup with off topic, moronic, and anti-Semitic 
> > > > posts. He uses a variety of screennames but it is obvious it is all the 
> > > > same guy. This morning he out did himself. Over the course of 25 minutes 
> > > > beginning at 8:23 AM, he posted 274 messages. Apparently he spent 
> > > > yesterday queuing them up for his morning dump (double entendre intended). 
> > > > At 30 posts per page, anyone wanting to get to the on topic threads would 
> > > > have to scroll through 9 pages of crap. Speaking for myself, having to 
> > > > wait a half a day for a message to post is a small price to pay for not 
> > > > having to put up with this kind of nonsense. 
> > > I agree. :-) 
> > Just an update. My other newsgroup is being bombarded with a continuous 
> > flow of gibberish posts. My guess is that somebody who obviously doesn't 
> > have a life has concocted software that automatically writes and submits 
> > posts that are completely nonsensical. I went to look at this newsgroup 
> > around 7:00 this morning and saw what was happening. I went all the way 
> > back to 6:03 am and there was continuous stream of these posts that has 
> > continued non-stop as I write this a few minutes after 10:00am. Just an 
> > example, one post was titled "glycerolize unfailing third with the 
> > heliocentric antelope squirrel". I don't suppose anyone can decipher this. 
> > It looks to me as if the program is just randomly slapping words together. 
> > The body of the posts is just more of the same. If someone has made any 
> > substantive posts in the mean time, they are being quickly swamped with 
> > the gibberish. I don't know what can be done about this nonsense but for 
> > now it has ruined the newsgroup because nobody is going to be able to 
> > carry on a dialog with thousands of new threads being continuously posted.
> Can`t you killfile the offender?

Each post is made with a unique screenname so it seems they are generating 
those randomly too.