Ouch, thats pretty nasty. I'm dilligently spam reporting everything that gets through though, so hopefully there will be a tipping point for the spammers where we are beating them.
Tom On 11/8/07, Russell Keith-Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 8, 2007 10:00 AM, Don Arbow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Don Arbow wrote: > > >> > > >> I usually go to the Google Groups web site for this and the dev > > >> group. There is a link in each message that you can use to report > > >> it as spam. I find that Google seems to be pretty quick to ban a > > >> specific user who is spam bombing groups. > > > > Just to follow up, I mentioned Google's excellent filtering and > > banning regime. My email inbox has 8 messages (4 unique with > > duplicates) from a certain someone that were posted this morning in > > the developers group. None of those messages appear in Google's online > > web site. Like any neighborhood with a graffiti problem, I think > > Google recognizes that users who report spam in their groups are more > > likely to get the "cops" to come around and help clean up, so report > > spammers to Google when you get a chance. > > Erm... no. The contributions of our little friend from this morning > were removed when I manually deleted his posts and banned his account > from posting in the future. > > Google's spam catching is good, but it receives a lot of assistance > from the list moderators. That assistance takes a lot of effort, > because the spam-purging interface on Google Groups is utterly painful > - removing a single post takes 5 clicks and 3 page loads; assuming you > already banning an account requires you to manually transcribe an > email address/username and search for the culprit, plus an additional > 3 clicks (assuming you already have the user management tools open). > On top of that, if you try to purge too many messages in a row, Google > blocks the request on the basis that you might be a bot, and presents > a captcha. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) > > > > -- Tom Badran http://badrunner.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
