omr- I feel your pain. This group actually receives its fair share of spam, but we have it set so that all first-time messages are moderated. That allows someone to go in and mark the new message as spam, which means that it will never actually be posted to the group and the sending email address will be permanently banned from the group.
It should be noted, though, that this is something of a team effort. When the moderation was started, the APIs dev team was only 3.5 people, and so the developer relations person responsible for the group (i.e., Ben Lisbakken at that time) allowed a couple of non-Googlers to join in the moderating tasks. Now, moderating is handled almost entirely by me, a non-Googler. That is a mixed bag of sorts. On the one hand, it means that spam doesn't destroy the community. On the other, it means that I have to moderate messages on a regular basis. Even so, you may propose such an arrangement to the Custom Search project manager or whatever Googler is most active on the group. Jeremy R. Geerdes Generally Cool Guy Des Moines, IA For more information or a project quote: jrgeer...@gmail.com If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan Church! On Feb 8, 2012, at 2:50 AM, omr wrote: > Sorry this is off-topic, but some help is needed over in the Custom > Search forum, and as that forum's administrators seem unable to > assist, I'm not sure who I should contact next. > > Spammers attack that forum almost daily. In recent months I've > submitted many (probably hundreds) of messages via the forum's spam- > reporting mechanism, and I have also contacted a Custom Search > manager. But there seems to be little if any active moderation in > place to discourage persistent spammers. Another user complained and > I replied here: > > https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/d/msg/customsearch/M46SYirEOe8/PkPz9JJylsAJ > > If one small group of persistent spammers can so easily cause > significant disruption, the problem will only worsen if other spammers > eventually join the fray. > > For the time being, I'll continue to submit reports through that > forum's spam-reporting mechanism; although this seems to do little > good, other than helping to partly 'hide' existing spam messages in > the forum's web interface. But that does no good for email > subscribers. > > After months of training the filter still seems ineffective in > preventing additional spam. Presumably there may be a need for manual > intervention and active moderation? > > Since there is not much ongoing spam here in this forum, I wonder: do > this forum's administrators employ better strategies (such as > proactive moderation) to prevent and discourage spam? > > If the Custom Search forum's administrators cannot solve the problem, > can anything more be done? Who should be contacted next? Would > Google's anti-spam specialists perhaps be able to help? > > Thanks > > -- omr > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. > To post to this group, send email to > google-ajax-search-api@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-ajax-search-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > To view this message on the web, visit > http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en_US > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to google-ajax-search-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-ajax-search-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com To view this message on the web, visit http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en_US For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en?hl=en
