Help with Usenet moderation needed urgently

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On 8/12/07, Bill Horne <billhorne-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion: I just installed the nntp package, and tried
> to use nntpxmit instead of rnews, but it's yet another learning curve to
> climb. It seems the spammers are the only ones that know how to post to
> newsgroups without having an NNTP server and associated files in perfect
> order :-(.

Oh, merely posting?  I thought you wanted to run a full-blown nntpd
service!  Posting is easy and there are tons of apps.  For text, try
pan.  If you want to automate binary posting, try newspost.  I use
newspost to upload stuff all the time, like Linux ISOs.  If you want a
free service, there are some, but usually your ISP offers a limited
access NNTP server for all customers...

> What I'm looking for is a "stand alone" program that I can use for
> one-by-one submissions from text files that contain one article per
> file, or perhaps something with a batch capability that will allow me to
> cat the files together. If tornado has such a capability, I'll use it.

newspost for sure...

> Comp.dcom.telecom isn't high traffic, just 5 to 20 posts/day, but the
> real work happens before posting, since the moderator gets ~600 service
> messages a day, all blowback from Joe-job spam. Still, stuff piles up.

spam will be spam.  Now, maybe there is a google algorithm/paper on
nntp spam fighting??? ;-P
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen

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