android-platform is now partially moderated

[Andrew Stadler (Google)]

We have recently turned on moderation control for the android-platform
mailing list. The goal is only to reduce the amount of spam on the
list. There is no plan for any active moderation or membership
control.

For existing members, this should reduce the amount of spam in the
list. Please give it a couple of days to wind down.

New memberships will still be granted automatically. There is no
intention to limit group membership, and new members will be able to
receive and read messages immediately.

For new members, your first post will be moderated. Please allow 24
hours for your first post to go through, and please don't keep
reposting. Once you have posted successfully, you will be allowed to
post freely.

I hope this improves things for all members of android-platform.

Andy Stadler
Google

[Chad]

*applauds*

Thank you thank you!

-Chad

[Chanwit Kaewkasi]

This is just great!

Best regards,

Chanwit

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Chanwit Kaewkasi
PhD Candidate,
Centre for Novel Computing
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL, UK

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 20:38, Andrew Stadler (Google)
<sta...@android.com> wrote:
> We have recently turned on moderation control for the android-platform
> mailing list.  The goal is only to reduce the amount of spam on the
> list.  There is no plan for any active moderation or membership
> control.

Finally! Thanks for doing this, it's probably a massive timesink.

Cheers,

Dirkjan

[Cian Masterson]

Thanks for that Andy, that's brilliant.

Out of curiosity can you not just apply the Google spam filter that
filters GMail accounts to google groups as well? Save a moderator
having to spend time...


On Apr 22, 7:38 pm, "Andrew Stadler (Google)" <stad...@android.com>
wrote:

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

Unfortunately applying Gmail's spam filter to Google Groups isn't
currently possible.

JBQ

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Android Engineer, Google.

Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private
will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further
warning.

[Chad]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately applying Gmail's spam filter to Google Groups isn't
> currently possible.
>
> JBQ
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Cian Masterson
> <cian.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for that Andy, that's brilliant.
>>
>> Out of curiosity can you not just apply the Google spam filter that
>> filters GMail accounts to google groups as well?  Save a moderator
>> having to spend time...
>>
>>

For anyone who knows...do Groups e-mails get sent straight to Gmail
accounts without filtering; basically, Gmail spam filter considers Groups a
"safe sender?" Just curious, as a lot of the spam gotten from this list
would've been caught normally, I'd have thought.

-Chad

[Matt]

I get the digests and all but the last two (and a couple of random
ones) were filtered to spam.

--
Matt