On 2/11/2010 1:22 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
On 11/02/2010 12:12 AM, Jim Gay wrote:>
Nope. We just have some weird addresses in there with letter/number jumbles
that could be anything, and I don't recognize them so i'm just suspicious.
If you're on the list and quiet, don't worry you may keep reading along and
posting when you need.
Google Groups just does a terrible job of blocking spam, so we have the rules
set that once you're in, you're in. If addresses were added before that policy
was set, then any spammer could be sitting on the list quietly too.
I notice that too on another list. A year ago Google groups was so good
with spam. I wonder what happened or if spammers just started trying
harder. I'll chim in with a client we recently just got off of
involving blog spam (which might actually be what's happening) what was
happening was there were real people signing up and then the bots would
take over the address after real people signed up. There is no way to
stop that though, unless everybody has to go through approval but that
would require too much work for an open project lol.
I prefer Yahoo Groups... and I like to set it such that the group policy
is that 'all posts are moderated'.
Then, when a user posts the first time, I am asked to moderate - I log
in, approve the post and change the user's setting to 'can post freely
without moderation'
That satisfies all the needs:
* Anyone can sign up
* Anyone can read
* Anyone can post proper stuff - only the first post is delayed due to
moderation
* In general, spam is prevented... the only cases of spam are:
** User posts a relevant post about Radiant and then decides to spam the
list (rare)
** User account is hijacked
Cheers,
Mohit.
2/11/2010 | 1:31 PM.
