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? >>>>> >>>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "OsmAnd" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/13e8f548-c66b-4455-b6a8-da009f545f73n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/13e8f548-c66b-4455-b6a8-da009f545f73n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OsmAnd" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/320aa9d7-ed4e-4905-9183-48fed72fb52fn%40googlegroups.com.
