Re: [google-appengine] How do I stop all the duplicate posting copies to the LinkedIn "Google App Engine Developers" group?

[Takashi Matsuo]

Hi Greg,

This is not a blog. This is a public forum for App Engine Developers. I'm sorry but I don't understand what you're saying here.

Can you elaborate more?

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Greg <goo...@gregstanleyandassociates.com> wrote:

We periodically get a blast of at least 6 identical postings from this blog to the LinkedIn "Google App Engine Developers group".  I only recently started moderating this LinkedIn group, and I have no idea how those posts even get there, or how to stop or specify them.  Who is causing this, and how can we reduce this to just one posting?   We're making a serious effort to eliminate spam in this group, and posting an item more than once effectively makes it spam! 

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[Kristopher Giesing]

My guess is your LinkedIn group is getting the email digests from this group.  I can think of a few ways this might happen:

1) Someone signed up to this Google group with the email address by which people can directly post to your LinkedIn group

2) Someone has an automatic forwarding rule for the digests to go to the email address by which people can directly post to your LinkedIn group

My guess would be 2), but that means the problem is out of this group's control.  If you peek at the headers for the spammy posts, can you tell what user they were posted on behalf of?

[Greg]

To clarify, the LInkedIn posts are linking to blog entries from the official "Google App Engine Blog", not digests from this forum.  For instance, one of those blog postings is at

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/09/app-engine-172-released.html 

You can see the copied-in postings on the "discussions" for that LinkedIn group (since it's an open group), at 

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=128878         

I apologize for posting here, but I didn't see another place to do it.  It didn't seem appropriate to add a comment to the original blog entries, since the problem is not specific to each blog entry.  In that blog posting, it said to provide "general discussion and feedback", find "us" (meaning the authors of that blog) at this forum, providing a link to it.   So I'm hoping that the Google people who generate the blog postings are indeed watching this forum.   The blog is "the official Google App Engine Blog", so I'm assuming someone at Google set this up. 

There's no headers to look at, since this doesn't involve e-mail.  The entry just appears on the web page for "discussions" (the second link provided above). 

[Kristopher Giesing]

I think you need to ask someone who knows how content makes it into that section of the LinkedIn group (such as LinkedIn support).  There is surely some kind of audit trail or spammers would just be able to blast the groups with noise.  I'm not sure anyone on this group will be able to help you.

- Kris