We need an administrator for the group to fight spam

Hi all,
this group needs an administrator.
there is too much spam on it!
this group was one of the best a few years ago and now it's just a
damp for spam!
Who is the current admin? do we have one?
is anybody  willing to be an administrator?
I'm willing to do as far I'm not alone.

Regards,
Francesco

On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 02:33:56 -0700 (PDT), KingOfDisaster
<francescopoderico@googlemail.com> wrote:

>Hi all,
>this group needs an administrator.
>there is too much spam on it!
>this group was one of the best a few years ago and now it's just a
>damp for spam!
>Who is the current admin? do we have one?
>is anybody  willing to be an administrator?
>I'm willing to do as far I'm not alone.

This is a Usenet newsgroup to which Google provides a gateway, rather
than one of Google's local groups, and thus it is not possible to
moderate it. [1]

Further, virtually all of the spam in this Usenet group originates from
the same googlegroups gateway through which you are posting. If you want
to reduce the incidence of spam, convince Google to do a better job on
their end.

[1] In theory, it's possible to go through the process of creating a
new, moderated group such as comp.arch.fpga.moderated. In practice, I
doubt whether there is enough interest for that to survive the voting
process.

-- 
Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA

Hi Rich,

What has happened in the last year or so?  This group never had this 
much spam when Peter was a regular contributor.  I thought perhaps he 
had a hand in keeping this group free from the crap?

Rob

Rich Webb wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 02:33:56 -0700 (PDT), KingOfDisaster
> <francescopoderico@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> this group needs an administrator.
>> there is too much spam on it!
>> this group was one of the best a few years ago and now it's just a
>> damp for spam!
>> Who is the current admin? do we have one?
>> is anybody  willing to be an administrator?
>> I'm willing to do as far I'm not alone.
> 
> This is a Usenet newsgroup to which Google provides a gateway, rather
> than one of Google's local groups, and thus it is not possible to
> moderate it. [1]
> 
> Further, virtually all of the spam in this Usenet group originates from
> the same googlegroups gateway through which you are posting. If you want
> to reduce the incidence of spam, convince Google to do a better job on
> their end.
> 
> [1] In theory, it's possible to go through the process of creating a
> new, moderated group such as comp.arch.fpga.moderated. In practice, I
> doubt whether there is enough interest for that to survive the voting
> process.
> 

Hi Rich,

What has happened in the last year or so?  This group never had this 
much spam when Peter was a regular contributor.  I thought perhaps he 
had a hand in keeping this group free from the crap?

Rob

Rich Webb wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 02:33:56 -0700 (PDT), KingOfDisaster
> <francescopoderico@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> this group needs an administrator.
>> there is too much spam on it!
>> this group was one of the best a few years ago and now it's just a
>> damp for spam!
>> Who is the current admin? do we have one?
>> is anybody  willing to be an administrator?
>> I'm willing to do as far I'm not alone.
> 
> This is a Usenet newsgroup to which Google provides a gateway, rather
> than one of Google's local groups, and thus it is not possible to
> moderate it. [1]
> 
> Further, virtually all of the spam in this Usenet group originates from
> the same googlegroups gateway through which you are posting. If you want
> to reduce the incidence of spam, convince Google to do a better job on
> their end.
> 
> [1] In theory, it's possible to go through the process of creating a
> new, moderated group such as comp.arch.fpga.moderated. In practice, I
> doubt whether there is enough interest for that to survive the voting
> process.
> 

Hi Rich,

What has happened in the last year or so?  This group never had this 
much spam when Peter was a regular contributor.  I thought perhaps he 
had a hand in keeping this group free from the crap?

Rob

Rich Webb wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 02:33:56 -0700 (PDT), KingOfDisaster
> <francescopoderico@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> this group needs an administrator.
>> there is too much spam on it!
>> this group was one of the best a few years ago and now it's just a
>> damp for spam!
>> Who is the current admin? do we have one?
>> is anybody  willing to be an administrator?
>> I'm willing to do as far I'm not alone.
> 
> This is a Usenet newsgroup to which Google provides a gateway, rather
> than one of Google's local groups, and thus it is not possible to
> moderate it. [1]
> 
> Further, virtually all of the spam in this Usenet group originates from
> the same googlegroups gateway through which you are posting. If you want
> to reduce the incidence of spam, convince Google to do a better job on
> their end.
> 
> [1] In theory, it's possible to go through the process of creating a
> new, moderated group such as comp.arch.fpga.moderated. In practice, I
> doubt whether there is enough interest for that to survive the voting
> process.
> 

My apologies for my response in triplicate!



Rich Webb wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 02:33:56 -0700 (PDT), KingOfDisaster
> <francescopoderico@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> this group needs an administrator.
>> there is too much spam on it!
>> this group was one of the best a few years ago and now it's just a
>> damp for spam!
>> Who is the current admin? do we have one?
>> is anybody  willing to be an administrator?
>> I'm willing to do as far I'm not alone.
> 
> This is a Usenet newsgroup to which Google provides a gateway, rather
> than one of Google's local groups, and thus it is not possible to
> moderate it. [1]
> 
> Further, virtually all of the spam in this Usenet group originates from
> the same googlegroups gateway through which you are posting. If you want
> to reduce the incidence of spam, convince Google to do a better job on
> their end.
> 
> [1] In theory, it's possible to go through the process of creating a
> new, moderated group such as comp.arch.fpga.moderated. In practice, I
> doubt whether there is enough interest for that to survive the voting
> process.
> 

On Sep 5, 6:31=A0pm, Rob <noth...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> What has happened in the last year or so? =A0This group never had this
> much spam when Peter was a regular contributor. =A0I thought perhaps he
> had a hand in keeping this group free from the crap?
>
> Rob

Thanks for the friendly mentioning.
I may have done my part in keeping this newsgroup helpful and perhaps
even friendly, but I had nothing to do with spam suppression.
Now, after having left Xilinx, I just look at this ng occasionally,
and am dismayed by its decay.
Peter Alfke, from home

> and am dismayed by its decay.

I think the main reason for this is because it has lost its "critical
mass". I suppose mainly due to the vendor-supplied forums (like
www.alteraforum.com). The vendor-supplied forums give you better
feedback in most cases...

Thomas

P.S.: And the spam is really annoying...

On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:31:12 -0400, Rob <nothear@nowhere.com> wrote:

>What has happened in the last year or so?  This group never had this 
>much spam when Peter was a regular contributor.  I thought perhaps he 
>had a hand in keeping this group free from the crap?

Actually, going back over the logs [*] it looks like the rate of spam in
this group has been decreasing. There was a peak period from late August
until early December 2009 where there were about 50-60 spam postings per
week. By February of this year, the rate had fallen to below 30/wk and
then to the low 'teens and single digits since then. Hardly more than
one/day most recently.

[*] I run Hamster Playground 2.5 as a local server to pre-filter the
news feed, upstream of my news reader. I don't add *every* faux Prada
handbags!!!! posting to the filters but wait until a given spam source
becomes "noticeable," so the true spam rate will be slightly higher than
and to the left of what the logs captured.

-- 
Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA

On Sep 6, 7:04=A0am, Thomas Entner <thomas.ent...@entner-
electronics.com> wrote:
> > and am dismayed by its decay.
>
> I think the main reason for this is because it has lost its "critical
> mass". I suppose mainly due to the vendor-supplied forums (likewww.altera=
forum.com). The vendor-supplied forums give you better
> feedback in most cases...
>
> Thomas
>
> P.S.: And the spam is really annoying...

You can find the Xilinx User Forum at
http://forums.xilinx.com/
Lots of helpful hints and solutions, even without my participation
Peter Alfke