TDPL a bad idea?

[Walter Bright]

retard wrote:
> Any hacker can write a bot that posts spam on net. So they invented 
> CAPTCHA. Agreed, there's spam on newsgroups, too. I guess the largest 
> reason why these newsgroups have avoided all that is because Walter has 
> his private nntp server and nntp isn't widely used anymore.

We get spammed now and then, but it hasn't been unmanageable. One reason 
I stopped trying to get google to pick up the n.g. is because doing so 
would, I suspect, make us a spam magnet.