On 10 Jan 2008, at 16:56, Robert Sartin wrote:

>
> 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.

Ah. Sorry. Misunderstood. I'd go with your normal action :-)

Adrian