Hi Derek, I agree -- the address is plausible and I think we're doing a sterling job managing Spam so far. As an educator I prefer to give the benefit of doubt in this scenario. We act in good faith and I concur with your assessment.
So go for it. If the contributor ends up being a spammer we'll do the necessary. Cheers Wayne On 25 June 2010 06:46, Derek Chirnside <[email protected]> wrote: > MUSINGS ON MODERATION (again) Just delete if you are not interested. > > Wayne, we are pretty spam free. > > We have the message "This list supports the WikiEducator project. So we > know you are not a Spam Bot, please say something about why you want to join > this list and mention by name WikiEducator. Thanks" in the signup > statement, but . . . people still don't make this mention. > > What should we do about this comment (from 5 minutes ago in a joining > request): > "I'd like to join because I'm interested in ICT teacher training." > > Address seems plausable. Seems a plausable sort of post. > > Doesn't mention Wikieducator, we -are- trying to cater for all groups, some > people may not even know what a spam bot is, some people may have no idea > about WE (etc) so it is a judgement call whether we 'approve' or not. > > I'm happy to be liberal and have a few approvals that shouldn't be to avoid > not approving deserving cases. A few. That's my view at the moment. > > -Derek > > On 24 June 2010 21:41, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> Do not follow the links in a recent post by Eleanore Van Guilder in a >> recent post -- this is SPAM that slipped through the groups Spam >> prevention mechanisms. >> >> The post has been deleted from the Website, the account has been >> banned from our list and I have reported the Spam to Google groups. >> >> Cheers >> Wayne >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "WikiEducator" group. >> To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org >> To visit the discussion forum: >> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
