Yes. We moderate a crap ton of spam on this list that subscribers never see.
This thread is officially locked. -Chad On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Josh Roesslein <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does this list have non-member moderation enabled? Having that on > helps block most of the spam bots that troll google groups. > > Josh > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It's not that *this* list is a target. It's that *every* list is a >> target. The cost to send spam is practically zero, so it would take >> more time and energy to decide what lists *not* to spam. The sad thing >> is that it works and is obviously profitable, otherwise it would have >> stopped long ago. >> >> -Chad >> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Scott Haneda <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I do not really understand their motivation, 99% of the groups out there are >>> not going to be susceptible to spam. Most groups are tech, or at least, >>> highly niche, and the people on it are going to know it is spam. Most >>> groups are filtered into a folder, there are just so many red flags. >>> >>> Spammers are a strange group. >>> >>> How come this list is such a target? I am on some other google groups, >>> larger than this by a fair degree, and this does not happen. >>> -- >>> Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * >>> >>> On Oct 19, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg wrote: >>> >>>> This looks just great... can't wait to try itj >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Peter Denton >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> I would say, considering I can only recall a few spam posts getting >>>>> through, you guys [sic] do a great job. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Why yes we can, and we do... loads of it. >>>>>> >>>>>> The problem is that these spammers are spoofing the "from" address of >>>>>> list owners who usually get automatically posted and skip the >>>>>> moderation step. This is a flaw of the way Google Groups handles >>>>>> incoming posts, and not of the group admins. >>>>>> >>>>>> -Chad >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Dave Briccetti <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Google group admins can actually DELETE spam, too, which would be >>>>>>> nice. >>> >>> >> >
