I'm glad you found the UGC blog post useful, Gil. To make sure I understand your comment on pricing, were you referring to E-Hawk's pricing or the costs to integrate other "blocklists and bot detection mechanisms?"
What orders of magnitude are you seeing for signups on your service? Seems like an interesting problem to solve. On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Gil Bahat <g...@magisto.com> wrote: > Excellent stuff, comprehensive and yet very straightforward. e-hawk in > particular seems a great alternative to rolling something on our own and > starting to evaluate various blocklists and bot detection mechanisms. can > get very very expensive though at our signup rate. > I find the idea to apply akismet to outgoing UGC a great one, because > 'standard' outbound spam filters don't aim UGC sharing systems, rather they > aim at ISPs, ESPs and big webmail providers. > > Thanks a lot, extremely useful. > > Gil Bahat, > DevOps/Postmaster, > Magisto Ltd. > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Paul Kincaid-Smith <p...@sendgrid.com> > wrote: > >> Hello Gil, >> >> I am the postmaster for magisto, an app centered around user generated >> content >>> (UGC). we enjoy some popularity, and with popularity comes abuse. There >>> are users who utilize magisto to generate content to be used for >>> spamvertisement and/or other unsavory content. they will then "invite" >>> users to see this content, in an unsolicited fashion, using the >>> built-in content invite mechanism. >>> <snip, snip> >>> in short - recommendations are most welcome, reference to best >>> practices or case studies from applicable examples. >>> >> >> Here is a blog post that consolidates my Delivery and Compliance teams' >> tips for safely emailing user generated content: >> https://sendgrid.com/blog/how-to-safely-email-user-generated-content/ >> I hope it's helpful to you. >> >> --Paul >> >> >
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