Re: When the trolls and spammers take over s.a.a.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Tettnanger) wrote in 
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

> When all the trolls and spammers take over, what
> should we be considering as good alternatives to
> sci.astro.amateur?  Are there parallel E-mail lists
> and private groups that have good moderated or
> self-moderated discussion without all the fringe
> crap?
> 
> I'm really surprised this group has made it intact for
> so long.  It seems that the number of Usenet boards
> being trashed by crossposting and spam has accelerated
> in recent months, and I've had to stop visiting quite
> a few of my favorites.  I have a feeling s.a.a.'s
> number will be up in the next year or two, and by
> 2005 it will be pretty much filled with "add more
> length to your manhood" spam and massively-crossposted
> political bashing.
> 
> Mark

The key thing is that the regular posters stay and keep posting on topic 
material. I recall that there used to be huge threads here with the same 
group  of people arguing over and over on various optics issues and they 
used to get quite personal. A lot of the big ego's involved grumped about 
s.a.a and ran off to yahoo groups. The result is that there is less 
rubbish on s.a.a than there used to be. You still get the idiots like 
Nancy and Min but just don't read their posts.

Llanzlan.