I check the list basically constantly, so I would be willing to act as a moderator purely for the purpose of spam removal.
Alternately, we could shift to a different system, that has better built in spam detection, and a higher barrier to entry than just having an email address... This would also have the advantage of perhaps a better search function, and being able to sticky posts, which would reduce some of the redundancy in this list. Whatever Rust is using looks pretty slick. https://users.rust-lang.org/ On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Duane Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I just wanted to add a quick note about recent spam on this list. Several > others, including Laszlo Pandy and Evan Czaplicki have been removing spam > threads, and also helpfully responded when I contacted the "list owners". I > was worried we were being overrun by spam without moderators fighting it, > but that is not the case. Thanks for your vigilance. > > I'm wondering if there is anything we can do to step up the fight. There > are two options I know of on google groups that can help, but they do > appear a little heavy-handed to newcomers: > > 1. require new members to be approved by a moderator > 2. require messages by new members to be approved by a moderator > > This list has 2,652 members. I think its size is making it become a target > for spammers. Both options, however, add a burden to moderators. > > Are there other options? > > Duane Johnson > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
