Re: What's with the spam here ?

From: "Arioch /BDV/" <[email protected]>

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| The stars so gaily glistened... (Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:41:12 -0500 @736)
| ...while the fading voice of David whispered through the darkness,
| making lonely ghost of George Hazan tremble:
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| AS: i wonder that giving URL to gmane you never looked at www.gmane.org FAQ
| :)
|
DHL>> Whose bright idea was to connect the two ?
|
| That's a long story.
| Initially Fidolook main idea was correct reading and replying to FIDO
| echoes, gated to internet via www.demos.su provider.
| Since those days russian section of internet had little if any interesting
| newsgroups and even forums - that was ver useful thing.
| Also those days there were times less spam over net, so the fact that
| Demos'es gate is de facto supporting spammers did not mean much.
|
| Then at some point we thought about getting rid from it. There were months
| when gate was almost unusable, you see.
| And www-forums are so hard to use :(
| Alas there are lot of places where one can have free forum hosting, an none
| with newsgroups.
| At least i failed to find those then.
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| 1st i was thinking about www.talk.ru - they serves brilliant mix of
| WWW-forum, NNTP-newsgroup (with login/password same as for WWW) and e-mail
| (maillist). I still think they are superior from techical point of view.
| Alas, all their pages are in russian. No matter how i asked to think about
| possibility of localisation - they refused. Now i hope at some point Google
| Groups will be as useful as talk.ru.
| Another forum i met is MS.Net forum at www.rsdn.ru - they made NNTP frontend
| t otheir WWW forum, like Talk.ru made WWW-frontend to NNTP engine :)
| Alas both Talk and RSDN engines are proprietary, and none of them can be
| localised to English.
|
| So it seeemed like no good.
|
| I don't know how i found GMane. That is not what i do like. It's WWW Loom
| interface is ugly, and WWW Blog is not as fancy as many other forums are.
| Also it was not hosting newsgroups, but it rather converted (and do so)
| maillist.  So there is a ping-pong gmane->maillist-server->gmane for every
| message which is delay. And NNTP messages do carry a lot of maillist0related
| garbage in their headers, that could be easily cleaned up.
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| Still it was the only free NNTP service what we got. Initially that maillist
| was hosted on fidolook.com, then we lost that domain, and maillist was moved
| to GoogleGroups, and remains there still.
|
| ....what i hope, is that fudforum.org will one day act like NNTP server, not
| only NNTP client :) GMane WWW interfaces are really ugly :)
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| BTW, look this newsgroup in GMane WWW interface, or look headers of the
| messages - and You would find a way to report them are spam ;)
|

Thank you for that informative reply !

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Dave
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