[Info-vax] [cov] Spam adaptation test - please ignore

[Subcommandante XDelta]

On Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:45:49 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta
<vlf at star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

>This is a spam adaptain test, please ignore.
>
>Whilst using:
>
>https://www.i2pn2.org/
>
>and
>
>https://www.eternal-september.org/
>
>to weather the spam storm, however, I'm still monitoring my c.o.v.
>newsfeed via my NewsGroupDirect (NGD) block account, out of morbid
>curiousity, which the admins of such, most certainly, are not on top
>of things, and there's been circa 62K spams since the 28th of
>November.
>
>I just blindly scoop up all the spam and move it to a SPAM folder, and
>then filter it for a few c.o.v specific keywords to see if there has
>been some baby bathwater collateral damage.
>
>A few of the spams do reference "comp.os.vms" but they are relatively
>rare.
>
>Anyway, FWIW, the spam adaptation test is to see whether adding a
>fixed prefix to the subject line will make it easy to filter, using
>only one keyword, rathering the fishing for posts with multiple
>keywords.
>
>That's about it!

Conclusion: it's a kludge, but it does enable finding the wheat in the
chaff.

So RFC: If everyone commits to the discipline of using an agreed
prefix, such as [cov] to the subject line, then signal is far less
likely to fall through the cracks (abusing too many metaphors) when
engaging in bulk spam management operations.