On Thursday, January 10, 2008, at 10:40AM, "Adrian Howard"
<adrianh@...> wrote:
>
>On 10 Jan 2008, at 16:02, Rob Sartin wrote:
>[snip]
>> - approve the messages (and possibly un-moderate the new user). This
>> seems just wrong to me. In every instance I've deleted messages, it
>> has been a first post by a new user pointing to a heavily ad-laden
>> site.
>[snip]
>
>There is a "moderate first posts" option in yahoogroups. Works well
>on other lists that I'm on as a way to keep spam down.


We already do that. This question is about what to do when I am moderating what
I consider to be an inappropriate (but possibly borderline) post. My normal
action to spam is "delete as spam" and "ban the member". I'm asking about
opinions for the borderline cases of what appear to be humans (rather than bots)
sending spam that specifically targets SCM practitioners.

Regards,

Rob