Problem with adult advertising in our group

[Darren Hague]

Hi there,

I run a Google Group (esme-dev) for developers of an open source
project, ESME. In a discussion on how we should format messages in our
application (http://groups.google.com/group/esme-dev/browse_thread/
thread/f3b8d25e64bd29d9), the associated adverts shown by Google in
the page were as follows:

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I'm really not happy about this kind of advertising in our group -
it's certainly not relevant to the discussion in any way. Is there
anything I can do to stop it? Set a "no adult advertising" flag on the
group, perhaps?

Best regards,
Darren

[David Pollak]

Darren,

I've set the group to require approval of messages for "new members"  That means for the first few weeks of membership, we have the opportunity to intercept inappropriate messages and ban the posters from our list.

This setting has resulted in no spam on the Lift list.

Thanks,

David

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Darren Hague <dha...@fortybeans.com> wrote:

Hi there,

I run a Google Group (esme-dev) for developers of an open source
project, ESME. In a discussion on how we should format messages in our
application (http://groups.google.com/group/esme-dev/browse_thread/
thread/f3b8d25e64bd29d9), the associated adverts shown by Google in
the page were as follows:

[removed]

I'm really not happy about this kind of advertising in our group -
it's certainly not relevant to the discussion in any way.  Is there
anything I can do to stop it? Set a "no adult advertising" flag on the
group, perhaps?

Best regards,
Darren

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: esme...@googlegroups.com [mailto:esme...@googlegroups.com] Im Auftrag von Darren Hague
Gesendet: Freitag, 07. November 2008 01:04
An: Google Groups Help Forum - Is Something Broken
Cc: esme...@googlegroups.com
Betreff: [ESME-dev] Problem with adult advertising in our group

[Darren Hague]

Thanks, David.

In this case, the problem was not spam messages from users, but rather
off-colour adverts from Google themselves - and I am told there is
nothing we can do about it. :-(

I guess things will be better if we make it into Apache and get a
mailing list there, instead.

Cheers,
Darren

On Nov 7, 12:09 am, "David Pollak" <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Darren,
>
> I've set the group to require approval of messages for "new members"  That
> means for the first few weeks of membership, we have the opportunity to
> intercept inappropriate messages and ban the posters from our list.
>
> This setting has resulted in no spam on the Lift list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Darren Hague <dha...@fortybeans.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
>
> > I run a Google Group (esme-dev) for developers of an open source
> > project, ESME. In a discussion on how we should format messages in our
> > application (http://groups.google.com/group/esme-dev/browse_thread/

> > thread/f3b8d25e64bd29d9<http://groups.google.com/group/esme-dev/browse_thread/thread/f3b8d25e...>),

> > the associated adverts shown by Google in
> > the page were as follows:
>
> > [removed]
>
> > I'm really not happy about this kind of advertising in our group -
> > it's certainly not relevant to the discussion in any way.  Is there
> > anything I can do to stop it? Set a "no adult advertising" flag on the
> > group, perhaps?
>
> > Best regards,
> > Darren
>
> --
> Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net

> Collaborative Task Managementhttp://much4.us