From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T07:56:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Eliminating spam on Ruby Forum

On 7/10/07, Kaps Lok <jocubeit@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know about you guys and gals, but the daily spam messages making
> their way into these forums is giving me the $hit$. I think what we need
> is a button to mark messages as spam, so someone can blow them away, and
> then ban the user.
>
> If there's no moderator, I can imagine it's not something someone would
> want to do constantly, maybe a ranking system where, say more than 10
> votes from unique users automatically kills the message and puts the
> user into a black list. That way the forum users are the spam police.

Ruby Forum isn't really anything except a third party interface to
mailing lists.
If you look at the other side of the RubyTalk -> news group gateway,
you'll find the spam isn't a problem for the RubyTalk list, so it must
be the rails list that's having issues.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/topics

> What do you people think?
>
> This is a cross-post with ROR Forum, please oly reply to one post.

Just don't cross post.  Write two emails instead.