The source of the spam was that anyone could join the group without admin
approval and could post messages without admin approval.

I've turned on both limits to this list, banned several spam accounts that were
already list members, and blocked the spam messages they tried to post.

Hopefully, the spam on this list should now approach zero.


Sean

--- In RecommenderSystems@yahoogroups.com, "Mark van Setten"
<mark.vansetten@...> wrote:
>
> I am still watch it, though most of the mails here are spam, so if you
> can change the spam threshold to filter out more spam that would be
> great.
>
> Maybe it would be wise to promote this mailing list at the upcoming ACM
> Recommender Systems 2009 conference in New York. Maybe that would
> restart the mailing list again.
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> Regards,
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>
> Dr. Ir. Mark van Setten
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> Novay
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> Senior Researcher
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> P.O. Box 589
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> 7500 AN Enschede
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> The Netherlands
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> From: RecommenderSystems@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:RecommenderSystems@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of smmcnee
> Sent: donderdag 18 juni 2009 18:39
> To: RecommenderSystems@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [RecommenderSystems] Still reading recommender systems?
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>
> For all of you still out there, is this group worth keeping around?
>
> I have moderation privs, and I can reduce the spam threshold
> considerably. The question is one of whether there still is interest in
> this group or not.
>
> If I don't hear anything back from anyone whatsoever, then I'll consider
> killing this group.
>
> Sean
>
> P.S. RecSys09, the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems is happening
> this fall in NYC. It's too late to submit papers, but there also
> workshops and tutorials.
>