On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:14:34 +0200, Martin Hotze
wrote in :

in the last 24 hours we (automatically!) filtered more than 30.000 posts.
Should we not filter out all the *obvious* crap?

In the old days of B News, before nntp, Usenet sites that injected
spam articles would find their downstream news neighbors removing
their ability to inject news articles into the stream. Each Usenet
News Administrator was accountable to his news-neighbors for the
content authored on his site, and if he failed to police his users,
his feed was cut off. This personal accountability insured that
spamming Usenet was not a viable option. Alas, today ...