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David Combs wrote:

>Looks like the spam/real-stuff ratio is getting to what, 5?  10?
>
>Other newsgroups have in the past gone moderated.
>
>Good or bad idea for the emacs groups?
>
>What would be the difficulties?
>
>How much of a PITA to simply toss out posts
>based purely on subject-lines?
>
>Or, might one of these email spam-catchers work
>for tossing at least the ones with subject-lines
>that aren't readible, not ascii, etc?
>
>We gotta do *something*, huh?
>  
>
you are right! The spam must stop!