On Thursday, January 27, 2005, 8:01:46 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > Kelson wrote: >> 1. You sign up for a group about vintage widgets. >> 2. Spammer sends a message to your vintage widget list. >> 3. You get the spam through a whitelisted, opt-in channel. >> 4. List members & owner get up in arms, flame war ensues over whether >> the list should be closed or kept open, whether Yahoo isn't doing its >> job filtering posts, whether it's Yahoo's business to filter posts, etc. >> 5. Repeat steps 2-4 until the owner decides to limit posting to members. >> 6. Spammer signs up for Yahoo account, signs up for list, posts spam. >> 7. Same as step 4. >> 8. Repeat steps 6-7 until list owner decides to enable some degree of >> moderation.
> One interesting tidbit -- a group I manage used to get hit by Step 6 > style spam pretty regularly. I turned on "first post requires moderator > approval". Interestingly enough, I haven't had to reject any spam. > Apparently just turning on that flag is enough to ward off a lot of > spammers. I've done the same thing on all of the Yahoo Groups I run. Spam no longer gets through to the lists. The software also has a convenient "Ban" button on the new message moderation page. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/
