seems good :) On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:12 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:47:12 +0530 > Shashwat Anand <anand.shash...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Lately this list have been spammed a lot. Any workarounds by moderators? > > Not as long as it is gatewayed to Usenet. You can kill most of the > spam by blocking anything from gmail.com with a Newsgroups line. > Unfortunately you will also block a lot of legitimate postings. > > If they would turn off the gateway then legitimate posters can choose > to join the list but as long as the gateway is there then there is no > reason to switch. > > With the gateway off there are all sorts of tools to reduce spam. I > think the best one is to set the flag to only allow subscribers to post > and to start all new users as moderated and remove the moderation on > the first posting as long as it is not spam. If the first posting is > not spam then chances are none of the rest from that user will be spam. > > -- > D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves > http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on > +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. >
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