2009/9/23 eliben <[email protected]>

>
> The new generation of spammers is really insidious. I'm having a
> difficult time swiping them off my blog. Most likely these are penny-
> paid outsourcers from sites like Rentacoder. I've seen many "500 blog
> comments for 5$" jobs there.
> Since these are people, they will overcome any moderation method.
>
>
Not true - the feature David is referring to (which is working on the google
groups I run) moderates posts from a user until the manager approves. The
only manual way round it *should* be to make a genuine post first which is
approved, and then the user is free to post spam.

Michael


>
> Eli
>
> On Sep 19, 11:49 pm, David Beazley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Just a quick message regarding recent spam messages.  Currently, an
> > unusual pattern of spam messages involving new members bypassing first-
> > post moderation has been set up on the ply-hack group.   I'm not
> > exactly sure how one might stop it other than to moderate everything
> > (which I don't really want to do).  However, I'm keeping an eye on the
> > situation and trying to delete messages and members as soon as they
> > appear.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
> >
>


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