----- Original Message -----

From: Chris Griffith

To: robowar@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 7:57 PM

Subject: Re: [robowar] Moderate the group? Or just new joiners?

I think its... cute (meh, bad choice of word) that a dead group breathes new
air over a discussion about the (seeming) increase of spam. Hell, maybe we
shouldn't moderate just for the sole fact that the spam will give us
sometime to talk about. I'll admit that I forget about this group until
there's a spam message with the [robowar] tag.

Cheers,
-Chris

>From: "Taro Yamamoto" <tyamamot@KT.RIM.OR.JP>
>Reply-To: robowar@yahoogroups.com
>To: <robowar@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [robowar] Moderate the group? Or just new joiners?
>Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 15:43:09 +0900
>
>I agree.
>
>T
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matt Burkholder
> To: robowar@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 10:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [robowar] Moderate the group? Or just new joiners?
>
>
> 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@yahoo.com
> > <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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