From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T08:06:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Eliminating spam on Ruby Forum

On Jul 10, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Kaps Lok 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.
>
> What do you people think?
>
> This is a cross-post with ROR Forum, please oly reply to one post.
>
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

If you could make that happen in a way that kept the message from  
going out to the mailing list in the first place, THEN you'd really  
have something ;-)

Someone posted a list of the email addresses that were generating  
most of the spam (*thank you* whoever you are!) and it's really not a  
problem once I added a spam rule to my Mail client.  My list has 13  
addresses now and if I notice two spammy messages from the same  
email, onto the list it goes!

-Rob

Rob Biedenharn		http://agileconsultingllc.com
Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com