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Posted by Steve Sobol on 01/03/08 20:35
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On 2008-01-03, Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
> The Breidbart Index is woefully out of date.
Every "official"** definition of Usenet spam that I've seen involves
excessive crossposting or multiposting, and that's what the BI measures.
Out of date? Maybe the threshhold needs to be changed - but it's far from
useless.
> In a.w.w, ads of any kind are considered SPAM. Same with some of the
> other groups he's posted to.
Well, that's off-topicness. Being off-topic is generally a bad thing, but
I've not heard a definition for newsgroup spam that involves content, only
number of times posted. (This doesn't make off-topic posting OK, just not
necessarily spam.)
--S
**As official as anything can be on Usenet.
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