Thank you all for your kind messages :) Actually, when spammers use email address like roseanjel1@, roseanjel2@, roseanjel3@, ... all tagged as "Allowed", i really think a global list management could be good.
I'll proceed late tonight GMT. Remi On Tuesday, June 7, 2011, Brian McMillin <[email protected]> wrote: > Remi - > > All in all, I am surprised that there is as little spam as there is. You are > doing a good job of keeping spam down and conversations civil. > > Go ahead and give it a try - delaying a user's first message is no great > penalty. > > With all the recent attacks on hotmail, gmail and yahoo accounts, it is not > surprising that 20% are being used for spam. Most list members are lurkers > who may not even be paying enough attention to realize that their accounts > are spamming the list - especially since you are already filtering really > well. > > You could try bouncing the spam, but I don't know if it would help. In some > cases, it might give a user a heads-up that their account was being abused, > in other cases the bounce would get lost in their filter and > thus just be a waste of time. > > Brian > > From: Remi Grumeau <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, June 7, 2011 4:25:25 AM > Subject: random spam messages > > Hi iPhoneWebDev lovers, > > I keep on trying to keep our list a spam free area... with no luck for now :( > With more than 5000 members and already more than 1000 tagged as > banned, i don't know why but some spam emails are still tagged as > "Allowed" (roseanjel, i'm talking about you here) > > I don't really see how i can manage to identify spam or not inside a > 5000 emails list, so what i'm thinking about is to mark everybody as > "Moderate" and tag you guys back as "Allowed" one by one on each first > new message. All in all, this shouldn't take too long, we are not more > than a hundred active folks here right? > The only difference for you as a user could be a bit longer time > before your message is moderate and published. > > Thoughts? > > Kinds Regards, > Remi Grumeau > > -- -- Kinds Regards, Remi Grumeau -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" 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/iphonewebdev?hl=en.
