Hi all Recently we've had a few spam emails that have made it through Google's filters, and there have been a calls for us to change to a moderate-first-post policy. I am reluctant to adopt this policy for the following reasons:
We get about 30 new users every day from all over the world, many of whom are early in their learning phase and are quite stuck - they need help as soon as possible. Fortunately this list is very active and helpful. In contrast, we've only ever banned 34 users from the list for spamming. So making new users wait for timezones to swing their way feels like a heavy handed solution to a small problem. Yes, spammers are annoying but they are a small minority on this list. Instead, we have asked 10 of our long standing members to help us with banning spammers. This way we have Spam Guardians active around the globe, who only need to do something if a spammer raises their ugly head above the parapet. One or two spam emails may get through, but hopefully somebody will leap into action and stop their activity before it becomes too tiresome. This isn't an exclusive list. If you would like to be on it, feel free to email me. Note: I expect you to be a long standing and currently active member of this list to be included. If this solution doesn't solve the problem, then we can reconsider moderate-first-post, but we've managed to go 5 years without requiring it, and I'd prefer to keep things as easy as possible for new users. Clint -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c9af5a09-0295-42e3-bc20-52471828aa96%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
