Hi, Stuart 5,000? This sounds like the feeds version of spam! I agree there should be a way to block this sort of abuse.
Ian --- In [email protected], "Stuart Whitmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I've said in the past, I really don't think it should be possible > for the person who suggests a feed to approve it. It's too easy to > abuse the system. > > I just took these feeds... > > 467594 > 467557 > 467553 > 467551 > 467601 > 472558 > 414969 > > ...(all of which were suggested and approved by one person) out of > Syndicated status and put them into Awaiting Repair, because none of > them even passed validation. (Most were approved today, and all of > the failures were related, so it's not a validation fluke.) > > That individual has over 5,000 feeds in the database, so I don't have > time to go through them all, but given the commercial nature of the > feeds, I don't think this was a "mistake." > > I know there are work-arounds to preventing a suggesting user from > approving the same feeds, but there should be some kind of obstacles > to make this sort of problem more difficult to cause. > > -- > Stuart Whitmore > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.just-stuart.com/ > If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
