Sound advice. The spam will only get worse over time. I think moderating now isn't a bad idea.
Regards Dave On 25 Sep 2009, at 11:41, David Wilson wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > Unfortunately the Belfast LUG learned the hard way that the only sane > way to run a Google Group is with new member moderation turned on, and > with file upload access explicitly turned off. We got our group banned > for several days because someone joined and uploaded a junk file. > > If you assign a few group managers, moderating first posts isn't all > that much work at all.. > > > David > > 2009/9/25 Tim Kersten <[email protected]>: >> Hi Folks, >> >> With 13 banned automated "spam" members in the last 7 days, it >> seems we have >> a new trend. Perhaps it's time to moderate the first one or two >> posts from >> new members after all. >> >> What do you think? Anyone strongly agree or disagree? >> >> Tim ^,^ >> >> >>> >> > > > > -- > Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. > — Philip K. Dick > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.ie/group/pythonireland?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
