Kelson wrote:
1. You sign up for a group about vintage widgets.
2. Spammer sends a message to your vintage widget list.
3. You get the spam through a whitelisted, opt-in channel.
4. List members owner get up in arms, flame war ensues over whether
the list should be closed or kept open, whether
On Thursday, January 27, 2005, 8:01:46 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
Kelson wrote:
1. You sign up for a group about vintage widgets.
2. Spammer sends a message to your vintage widget list.
3. You get the spam through a whitelisted, opt-in channel.
4. List members owner get up in arms, flame war
One interesting tidbit -- a group I manage used to get hit by Step 6
style spam pretty regularly. I turned on first post requires moderator
approval. Interestingly enough, I haven't had to reject any spam.
Apparently just turning on that flag is enough to ward off a lot of
spammers.
Then
Loren Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then again, I belong to a fairly esoteric list that requires a conversation
with the moderator in able to even be able to join the list. Part of the
conversation is stating that you Will Not Spam.
About one in 5 new members is a spammer, and gets
On Thursday, January 27, 2005, 8:50:25 PM, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
Loren Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then again, I belong to a fairly esoteric list that requires a conversation
with the moderator in able to even be able to join the list. Part of the
conversation is stating that you Will
Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yahoo Groups has a moderate new members setting which leaves new
members in a moderated state until the owner manually changes it.
It's a deterrent against spam since initial posts are moderated.
Works great.
I've been a moderator too many times, that's
On Thursday, January 27, 2005, 9:34:09 PM, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yahoo Groups has a moderate new members setting which leaves new
members in a moderated state until the owner manually changes it.
It's a deterrent against spam since initial posts are
On Thursday, January 27, 2005, 9:51:41 PM, Jeff Chan wrote:
As a practical matter an N of 1 seems to
stop most spammers and probably prevents most from even
trying in the first place, which is even better.
(But that's with the manual un-moderating, and not auto
un-moderating.)
Jeff C.
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RE: Whitelisting Groups/Lists
(from another thread)
address triggers that flag - even though
it talks about a URL. For example,
on one mailing list there is a poster
who posts from a .biz address. Any
thread
Remember that article on spam filtering a month or two back where people on the
SA
by the term
whitelist.
{^_^}
- Original Message -
From: Rob McEwen (PowerView Systems) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Whitelisting Groups/Lists
(from another thread)
address triggers that flag - even though
it talks about a URL. For example,
on one mailing list there is a poster
who posts from
Jdow said:
I have found, in general, that whitelisting mailing lists
is not a very good idea ... I also find spams appear
on unmoderated Yahoo Groups. ... a blanket white list of
the sort you propose would likely turn me white with anger...
Thanks for the reply... but that is why I said in my
Rob McEwen wrote:
Jdow said:
I have found, in general, that whitelisting mailing lists
is not a very good idea ... I also find spams appear
on unmoderated Yahoo Groups. ... a blanket white list of
the sort you propose would likely turn me white with anger...
Thanks for the reply... but that
From: Rob McEwen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jdow said:
I have found, in general, that whitelisting mailing lists
is not a very good idea ... I also find spams appear
on unmoderated Yahoo Groups. ... a blanket white list of
the sort you propose would likely turn me white with anger...
Thanks for the
Rob McEwen wrote:
Still, do you find such spam coming from those lists which are 100% opt-in?
If Yahoo 100% opt-in?
For the spam from Yahoo, is there a pattern? For example, I find that the
greatest risk for FPs are those instances where the list saves up a day's
worth of posts and then sends all
From: Don Levey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rob McEwen wrote:
Jdow said:
I have found, in general, that whitelisting mailing lists
is not a very good idea ... I also find spams appear
on unmoderated Yahoo Groups. ... a blanket white list of
the sort you propose would likely turn me white with
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