Recent Spam increase on this list

[Tim Kersten]

Hi Folks,

With 13 banned automated "spam" members in the last 7 days, it seems we have a new trend. Perhaps it's time to moderate the first one or two posts from new members after all.

What do you think? Anyone strongly agree or disagree?

Tim ^,^

[Diarmuid Bourke]

Aye, it seems the sanctuary of google groups has been breached by more
spammers. I'm for moderation if its easy to do. However, they are
rather amusing...

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diarmuid...@mail.dcu.ie

[David Wilson]

Hi Tim,

Unfortunately the Belfast LUG learned the hard way that the only sane
way to run a Google Group is with new member moderation turned on, and
with file upload access explicitly turned off. We got our group banned
for several days because someone joined and uploaded a junk file.

If you assign a few group managers, moderating first posts isn't all
that much work at all..


David

2009/9/25 Tim Kersten <t...@io41.com>:

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
— Philip K. Dick

[David Guerin]

Sound advice.

The spam will only get worse over time. I think moderating now isn't a
bad idea.

Regards
Dave

[Federico Ceratto]

>>> With 13 banned automated "spam" members in the last 7 days, it
>>> seems we have
>>> a new trend.

Hello everybody,

As long as there are not many people joining the group every day, IMHO
it's better to tackle the problem before it becomes bigger, so
+1 for moderation of the first message.

--
Federico
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

[Daniel Kersten]

Yeah, sounds reasonable to me too.


2009/9/25 Federico Ceratto <federico...@gmail.com>:

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Daniel Kersten.
Leveraging dynamic paradigms since the synergies of 1985.

[Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)]

On 25/09/09 12:13, Federico Ceratto wrote:

>
> Hello everybody,
>
> As long as there are not many people joining the group every day, IMHO
> it's better to tackle the problem before it becomes bigger, so
> +1 for moderation of the first message.
>

+1
You can always ask for more help.
Willing, if needed.

[Patrick Dempster]

On the BLUG group we've found it works quite well and provided there
are a couple of people moderating its not a huge deal for those doing
the actual moderating.

Talk to you soon,
Take care,
Paddy

If it happens once, it's a bug.
If it happens twice, it's a feature.
If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy.



2009/9/25 Diarmuid Bourke <diarmui...@gmail.com>:

[Vicky Lee]

Sean is in charge of the list, he'll be able to tweak the settings for the mailing list.

/// Vicky

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[Tim Kersten]

Thanks for the many replies and opinions. Since nobody spoke out against moderating new members and other groups seem to have been forced to do the same, I assume that it's OK with the majority on the list. Moderation of new member's first emails is now enabled. Hopefully spam will drop back to nothing :-)

Cheers,
Tim ^,^