Counter-spam: Change the subject

[Aahz]

In article <1b648cf1-ee24-4132-9c15-b293d12907cf at i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Paul McGuire  <ptmcg at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>On Dec 11, 5:59 am, dfg <sofiya... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
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>
>I was surprised at how effectively the spam posting the other day,
>"Jesus in the Quran" was masked and defused by a reply titled "J in
>the Q".  It seems this might be a simple tool for cleaning up some of
>the spam posting clutter, just by "changing the subject" (double
>entendre not intentional, it just happened).  Instead of these
>breathless, shouting subjects full of '#' signs and capital letters,
>we just acronymify them to "H T T Y D W into M M W" by posting a reply
>and editing the subject.
>
>Could this work?  It seems too simple.

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