Hi Harry.  Thanks for the feedback, and for the work you do with OsmAnd.   
Regards Paul W

On Sunday, 3 December 2023 at 16:49:56 UTC [email protected] wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The problem is that some of the spam mails are "detected" and other spam 
> mails are not. The ones that get detected will be reported to the 
> moderators. They can still be approved by the moderators if they are "false 
> positives", but the real spam/fishing etcetera does not get approved and 
> gets blocked: forever. Your last message about "all this wire transfer" was 
> also marked as "possible spam" based on the other ones, but passed through 
> "the filter".
>
> You can never prevent spam from a "new sender" to a mail group unless all 
> messages pass through the moderators. The amount of mails is now much lower 
> than a few years ago, but still the moderators don't want to go through 
> every email. I used to be a moderator and still have that "elevated 
> access", but currently I am in the background occasionally doing some 
> moderation.
> I personally already blocked 11 spam messages today and 17 from past week, 
> even as "only" a "far in the background" backup right now. I do not know 
> how many are actually blocked.
> We also have the option to remove older mails from the mail group itself, 
> but if you receive emails (gmail, webmail, pop3-mail) they are already in 
> your account, and that is already too late to remove them. Users "only" 
> reading in the mail group itself will see them "disappearing", if they had 
> already spotted them anyway.
>
> It is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.  ;)
>
> Harry
>
>
> Op zo 3 dec 2023 om 17:17 schreef P Wat <[email protected]>:
>
>> Two batches of spam on the forum today.   04:40 and 10:40.
>> And it appears https://groups.google.com/g/osm-android-bikerouting is 
>> getting some of the same.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 29 November 2023 at 16:56:05 UTC P Wat wrote:
>>
>>> Aha.  Yes . Done (to three of them).  Thanks Pebo.  PW
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, 29 November 2023 at 16:14:39 UTC [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>> Go to the 3-dots menu of messages, there is a menu option to report as 
>>>> abuse (or something like that)
>>>>
>>>> P Wat schrieb am Mittwoch, 29. November 2023 um 15:29:44 UTC+1:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there an easy to get rid of it and block it once and for all?
>>>>>
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