I hate to see the group so dead to real posts. I agree we should kill
the spam.

Matt

Camden wrote:
>
> It *has* gotten to be fairly silly with spam.
> Moderation seems regrettable but useful. It didn't
> seem like we got this much spam before, but maybe it
> was just less percent-wise when there were more real
> posts. I still think forums which can track IPs would
> be ideal, but either way moderation seems to be key.
>
> Camden
>
> --- Eric Foley <darth_stilt@...
> <mailto:darth_stilt%40yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
> > Hello all...
> >
> > I'm currently thinking that, although it _is_ true
> > that this is all but
> > a dead group at this point because there hasn't been
> > much activity in
> > RoboWar in general for about a year and a half, it
> > probably would be
> > nice to at least try to keep the spammers from
> > taking over. Probably
> > 95% of the traffic on this group in the last several
> > months has been
> > spam, and the vast majority of it is coming from
> > some very predictable
> > and easy-to-recognize email addresses. (The main
> > culprit(s) that's
> > been sending around most of it has been using a
> > fairly predictable
> > series of handles with a different three digit
> > suffix and *.info domain)
> >
> > This strikes me as something that would be very easy
> > to kill by turning
> > on moderation on the group. It's not heavy enough
> > of a load that I
> > haven't been able to kill all the spammers pretty
> > promptly in general,
> > so moderating their joining and sending wouldn't be
> > any harder, and it
> > would keep the garbage out of all your mailboxes to
> > begin with.
> >
> > However, I can't turn on moderation by myself
> > because I'm not the owner
> > of the group. So... Kevin? Unless there's a big
> > outcry against it...?
> >
> > E
> >
> >
>
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