Eliminating spam on Ruby Forum

[Kaps Lok]

I don't know about you guys and gals, but the daily spam messages making
their way into these forums is giving me the $hit$. I think what we need
is a button to mark messages as spam, so someone can blow them away, and
then ban the user.

If there's no moderator, I can imagine it's not something someone would
want to do constantly, maybe a ranking system where, say more than 10
votes from unique users automatically kills the message and puts the
user into a black list. That way the forum users are the spam police.

What do you people think?

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[Lionel Bouton]

I think you are on a mailing list :-) and:
- Google doesn't provide this service,
- it wouldn't help people using the classic mail delivery (which may or
may not be the majority -> it may not even work at all).

SPAM isn't really a problem for me, but Thunderbird is throwing them in
my Junk folder automatically, so...

Lionel.

[Kaps Lok]

Lionel Bouton wrote:

> Kaps Lok wrote:
>> What do you people think?
>>
>>
> I think you are on a mailing list :-) and:
> - Google doesn't provide this service,
> - it wouldn't help people using the classic mail delivery (which may or
> may not be the majority -> it may not even work at all).
>
> SPAM isn't really a problem for me, but Thunderbird is throwing them in
> my Junk folder automatically, so...
>
> Lionel.

I only get replies to messages I've posted in my email. I tend to use
the ruby-forum.com, it's annoying to see it seeded with messages about
used cars etc. I was just wondering what other people thought. What's
the reference to Google? Is this forum on Google Groups?

[Phlip]

> If there's no moderator

Why's there no moderator?

Please don't give me that "all Rails developers are overworked" crap...

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[Mohit Sindhwani]

Hi Kaps Lok,

A number of things get blocked by my Thurnderbird filter that "Junks"
emails from the following emails (I'm assuming that you're on the
mailing list - not reading it on the web)

Here are the emails to block.

rania...@gmail.com
moona...@gmail.com
sarah.s...@gmail.com
sheetal...@gmail.com
tania....@gmail.com
maria...@gmail.com
koom...@gmail.com
choz...@gmail.com
des...@gmail.com
a.ka...@gmail.com
elizib...@gmail.com
myreplic...@yahoo.com
smart...@gmail.com
lap...@gmail.com
gazar...@yahoo.com
coolguy...@gmail.com
ecas...@gmail.com
fr...@126.com
imtiaz...@gmail.com
zo0oma.b...@gmail.com"

Cheers,
Mohit.
7/11/2007 | 12:29 PM.