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Re: [KHOOMEI] protocol

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 <imnotelmo@...> wrote: 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

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Fri Jul 6, 2007 8:47 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	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	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 parsonii	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	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	Jul 7, 2007 4:20 pm
i wasn't aware of that feature. we can certainly give it a whirl. grover...	grover imnotelmo	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	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...	Quark IT - Hilton Tra... hiltont_au	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	Jul 6, 2007 10:24 pm

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