From: John Joyce Date: 2007-07-11T09:18:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Eliminating spam on Ruby Forum On Jul 10, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Rob Biedenharn wrote: > 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 > > > Does this thread count as spam?