Re: spam stuff..to moderators

[Guest guest]

Hi Kathy,

We've tried various suggestions over the many years this group has been

running. We just don't have the effort to constantly watch and moderate new

people. It's also easy for a spammer to send " I would like to discuss

rheumatic illness " after reading our group name, we would approve them and

still get the spam. As Ethel said, there is nothing to stop them changing

their email address and doing it all again.

Given that this group only gets a few spammers each month (admittedly this

week has been a bad one it shouldn't be too much to ask people just to

hit 'delete'.

I'm glad that method has worked for you on your groups though. We appreciate

the suggestion.

Chris.

Hi, to keep this stuff out on my own lists I have people write something

about themselves when they join telling me why they want to join the list.

the spammers write stuff like " I want to join your beautiful group " and

then i wont approve them. this does take approving each person. so far ive

been able to keep the spammers at bay. kathy (ps I dont moderate the

messages, only who joins)

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your previous reply regarding my concern about accidentally

blocking the whole group when I only want to block one person with the spam

button.

 

Hitting delete isnt that bad, what my concern is those spammers that may spread

viruses when we open their email. We are sick enough as it is, we don't need our

computers sick also....

From: cadlard@... <cadlard@...>

Subject: Re: rheumatic spam stuff..to moderators

rheumatic

Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 4:28 AM

Hi Kathy,

We've tried various suggestions over the many years this group has been

running. We just don't have the effort to constantly watch and moderate new

people. It's also easy for a spammer to send " I would like to discuss

rheumatic illness " after reading our group name, we would approve them and

still get the spam. As Ethel said, there is nothing to stop them changing

their email address and doing it all again.

Given that this group only gets a few spammers each month (admittedly this

week has been a bad one it shouldn't be too much to ask people just to

hit 'delete'.

I'm glad that method has worked for you on your groups though. We appreciate

the suggestion.

Chris.

Hi, to keep this stuff out on my own lists I have people write something

about themselves when they join telling me why they want to join the list.

the spammers write stuff like " I want to join your beautiful group " and

then i wont approve them. this does take approving each person. so far ive

been able to keep the spammers at bay. kathy (ps I dont moderate the

messages, only who joins)

[Guest guest]

Kathy, we appreciate your time screening new people because it no doubt keeps so

many spammers out of the way.

 

As far as messages go, I think that if the messages had to be approved it would

be so time consuming for a modetator and then the people would have to wait a

while to see their messages. So that ideally wont ever change, even though there

will be a risk of spammers, the benefits still outweigh the risks.

From: Kathy <sunbriar@...>

Subject: rheumatic spam stuff..to moderators

rheumatic

Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 3:10 AM

Hi, to keep this stuff out on my own lists I have people write something about

themselves when they join telling me why they want to join the list. the

spammers write stuff like " I want to join your beautiful group " and then i wont

approve them. this does take approving each person. so far ive been able to keep

the spammers at bay. kathy (ps I dont moderate the messages, only who joins)

[Guest guest]

Kathy, we appreciate your time screening new people because it & nbsp;no

doubt & nbsp;keeps so many spammers out of the way.

& nbsp;

As far as messages go, I think that if the messages had to be approved it would

be so time consuming for a modetator and then the people would have to wait a

while to see their messages. So that ideally wont ever change, even though there

will be a risk of spammers, the benefits still outweigh the risks.

From: Kathy & lt;sunbriar@... & gt;

Subject: rheumatic spam stuff..to moderators

rheumatic

Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 3:10 AM

Hi, to keep this stuff out on my own lists I have people write something about

themselves when they join telling me why they want to join the list. the

spammers write stuff like " I want to join your beautiful group " and then i wont

approve them. this does take approving each person. so far ive been able to keep

the spammers at bay. kathy (ps I dont moderate the messages, only who joins)

[Guest guest]

Hi Vicki,

groups has a spam blocker. If thinks a message has a virus it

marks it as such as and sends the moderators a message to approve or

disapprove. We do this several times a week. Spammers usually want to sell

something (as in the case this week, religion, sex, something or other) so

that is their purpose in sending the messages, which unfortunately doesn't

trigger off the filters as it looks like normal email.

I know the volume of junk mail in my private inbox has hugely increased over

the last year. Sad that a great facility like the net is spoiled by people

who seem to have little else to do. Not sure we can do much more about the

problem.

Hope this helps,

Chris.

> Thanks for your previous reply regarding my concern about accidentally

blocking the whole group when I only want to block one person with the spam

button.

>  

> Hitting delete isnt that bad, what my concern is those spammers that may

spread viruses when we open their email. We are sick enough as it is, we don't

need our computers sick also....

[Guest guest]

Thanks that makes sense. You guys do such a great job.

 

If these spammers were half as sick as us we wouldn't be dealing with their B.S.

From: cadlard@... <cadlard@...>

Subject: Re: rheumatic spam stuff..to moderators

rheumatic

Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 3:49 PM

Hi Vicki,

groups has a spam blocker. If thinks a message has a virus it

marks it as such as and sends the moderators a message to approve or

disapprove. We do this several times a week. Spammers usually want to sell

something (as in the case this week, religion, sex, something or other) so

that is their purpose in sending the messages, which unfortunately doesn't

trigger off the filters as it looks like normal email.

I know the volume of junk mail in my private inbox has hugely increased over

the last year. Sad that a great facility like the net is spoiled by people

who seem to have little else to do. Not sure we can do much more about the

problem.

Hope this helps,

Chris.

> Thanks for your previous reply regarding my concern about accidentally

blocking the whole group when I only want to block one person with the spam

button.

>  

> Hitting delete isnt that bad, what my concern is those spammers that may

spread viruses when we open their email. We are sick enough as it is, we don't

need our computers sick also....

[Guest guest]

Also worth remembering that reading an email message doesn't transfer a

virus to your computer. Viruses are transmitted in attachments. If you never

open an attachment unless you know the person, then you won't risk getting a

virus on your machine.

On this group we have disallowed attachments specifically for that reason.

Chris.

Vicki writes:

> Thanks that makes sense. You guys do such a great job.

>  

> If these spammers were half as sick as us we wouldn't be dealing with their

B.S.