[fpc-pascal] Spam

[Frank Church]

On 11 March 2012 12:08, Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:

> Jonas Maebe schrieb:
>
>  Sorry about this spam message. This person simply subscribed to the list
>> and then sent the message. I've now changed the list options so that new
>> members are moderated by default. This may result in some new members'
>> first real posts to be accidentally discarded along with the spam that's
>> held for moderator approval, but I don't know of another way to defend
>> against this sort of abuse.
>>
>>
> Please don't overmoderate everything! It is so simple for me to delete
> some spam messages. They cannot be avoided anyway.
> Filtering spam does not work perfectly. Trying to find every spam (well,
> what's spam at all?) will also delete some interesting (and sometimes even
> important) message too.
>
>
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I agree that it is too early to moderate join requests on account of this
one message . This is the first spam I can remember seeing on this mailing
list in a long while.

Give it some more time and moderate it if the amount of spam increases to
an annoying level.

-- 
Frank Church

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