[prewett]

> There is no viable solution either.

There is a solution: make a cost to post. In the past it cost real money to propagate your ideas, so your audience was limited. The only way to get money was to be rich or to be popular enough for people to pay for your newspaper/magazine/mailing list. The internet lets anyone have a language-wide reach for free. I guess one should expect that in this situation the messages that will dominate are the people that have an incentive to shout loudly, which is what we seem to have.

[klez]

Ok, but if you make it pay-per-post than only those with money can post, which is a different kind of problem but still a problem nonetheless.