From: dennis@windows3.de   
      
   Hi,   
      
   On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 16:53 -0500, lp wrote:   
   > I also agree with the comments about forums. Sure usenet is easy to manage   
   > from a user point of view on the surface if you can skip the crap and don't   
   > go nuts, but the forums do have more control. Spam really don't exist there,   
      
   Being a moderator of a 1000+ members forum myself I'm afraid I have to   
   disagree. Spam really is a big problem in forums. Not due to users   
   posting nonsense but actually spam bots also crawl forums and post all   
   kinds of spam messages there - including posts with explicit sexual   
   images!   
      
   The solution we found for our forum is that we require users to   
   validate. This is a new user's posts are not shown to the public but   
   only to us moderators. We than approve or delete those invisible posts   
   and based upon that end a user's validation period or deactivate his   
   account.   
      
   PS: Me too, I'm still a regular ATARI user. I'm mainly using my Falcon   
   for Cubase MIDI work. :)   
      
      
      
   Yours sincerely,   
   Dennis Schulmeister   
      
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   Tel: +49 721/5978883 - Mob: +49 152/01994400 - eMail: dennis@windows3.de   
      
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