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please don't respond to spam.

it just creates more clutter and
you are not really sending the message
to the offender anyway.

messages spaming this list are usually
removed and the author banned within 24 hours.

grover





Fri Jul 6, 2007 12:11 pm

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please don't respond to spam. it just creates more clutter and you are not really sending the message to the offender anyway. messages spaming this list are...
grover
imnotelmo
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Jul 6, 2007
12:16 pm

One of the problems that occurs when spam is responded to is it lets the spammer know that someone is reading it and that is why they send more. grover...
Stacey Doljack Borsody
hjernespiser
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Jul 6, 2007
8:49 pm

You could set up the group to moderate only "new" members posts, it's a feature of the Yahoo Groups settings, so when a spammer posts, it never makes the list,...
John Pascuzzi
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Jul 6, 2007
9:40 pm

HI John, I've already asked about this and the response was that this was not going to happen. So, in that case, we're gonna keep getting spammed in here,...
Quark IT - Hilton Tra...
hiltont_au
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Jul 6, 2007
9:58 pm

Hey John, Thanks for pointing that out. That is a relatively new feature and I'm glad that Yahoo added it (I turned it on for TyvanLearners). What I had read...
Stacey Doljack Borsody
hjernespiser
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Jul 7, 2007
4:20 pm

i wasn't aware of that feature. we can certainly give it a whirl. grover...
grover
imnotelmo
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Jul 7, 2007
10:08 pm

Hi Stacey, I moderate new members and mew member posts for a number of groups and this subtracts a sum total of maybe 5 minutes per day occasionally from my...
Quark IT - Hilton Tra...
hiltont_au
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Jul 7, 2007
11:53 pm

Hi Stacey, I'm wondering who, in their right mind, would ever bother to reply to a spammer in the first place, especially considering 99% of the time the email...
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hiltont_au
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Jul 6, 2007
9:55 pm

Well, either way, it's their forum, but it would actually be less administrative work to do the "new user moderation" thing, versus the current set up, since...
John Pascuzzi
parsonii
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Jul 6, 2007
10:24 pm
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