Spam problems
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David Beazley
Sep 19, 2009, 5:49:13 PM9/19/09
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Just a quick message regarding recent spam messages. Currently, an
unusual pattern of spam messages involving new members bypassing first-
post moderation has been set up on the ply-hack group. I'm not
exactly sure how one might stop it other than to moderate everything
(which I don't really want to do). However, I'm keeping an eye on the
situation and trying to delete messages and members as soon as they
appear.
unusual pattern of spam messages involving new members bypassing first-
post moderation has been set up on the ply-hack group. I'm not
exactly sure how one might stop it other than to moderate everything
(which I don't really want to do). However, I'm keeping an eye on the
situation and trying to delete messages and members as soon as they
appear.
Cheers,
Dave
Michael Foord
Sep 19, 2009, 5:59:36 PM9/19/09
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eliben
Sep 23, 2009, 12:41:59 PM9/23/09
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The new generation of spammers is really insidious. I'm having a
difficult time swiping them off my blog. Most likely these are penny-
paid outsourcers from sites like Rentacoder. I've seen many "500 blog
comments for 5$" jobs there.
Since these are people, they will overcome any moderation method.
Eli
difficult time swiping them off my blog. Most likely these are penny-
paid outsourcers from sites like Rentacoder. I've seen many "500 blog
comments for 5$" jobs there.
Since these are people, they will overcome any moderation method.
Eli
Michael Foord
Sep 23, 2009, 1:13:47 PM9/23/09
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2009/9/23 eliben <eli...@gmail.com>
The new generation of spammers is really insidious. I'm having a
difficult time swiping them off my blog. Most likely these are penny-
paid outsourcers from sites like Rentacoder. I've seen many "500 blog
comments for 5$" jobs there.
Since these are people, they will overcome any moderation method.
Not true - the feature David is referring to (which is working on the google groups I run) moderates posts from a user until the manager approves. The only manual way round it *should* be to make a genuine post first which is approved, and then the user is free to post spam.
Michael
Eli
On Sep 19, 11:49 pm, David Beazley <d...@dabeaz.com> wrote:
> Just a quick message regarding recent spam messages. Currently, an
> unusual pattern of spam messages involving new members bypassing first-
> post moderation has been set up on the ply-hack group. I'm not
> exactly sure how one might stop it other than to moderate everything
> (which I don't really want to do). However, I'm keeping an eye on the
> situation and trying to delete messages and members as soon as they
> appear.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
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