[fpc-pascal] Spam

Zaher Dirkey parmaja at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 17:30:34 CET 2012


On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>wrote:

>
> On 11 Mar 2012, at 13:21, Frank Church wrote:
>
> > I agree that it is too early to moderate join requests on account of this
> > one message .
>
> I won't moderate join requests (there is no way to know whether a new
> subscriber will be a spammer or not). It's just that their messages will
> default to being moderated, and I will generally clear that moderation flag
> the first time they send a mail if it's not spam.
>
> > This is the first spam I can remember seeing on this mailing
> > list in a long while.
>
> That's because of preventative measures (such as holding all mails from
> non-subscribers for moderator approval -- this also results in lost
> messages, because sometimes people mail from a different address or are
> simply not subscribed). It's not because we ignore what spammers do.
>
> > Give it some more time and moderate it if the amount of spam increases to
> > an annoying level.
>
> I don't want to wait until that point. And I can also disable this measure
> again if no new spammers try to join in the upcoming months. It's not like
> we get 10 new subscribers a day or so (more like 5 to 10 per month, and
> many of those don't post).
>
>
In WordPress you need only moderate the new posts for the users, users have
over 5 posts (5 for example), WordPress will automatically accpet the post
without moderate from that user.

Best Regards
Zaher Dirkey
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