spams

[Shashwat Anand]

seems good :)

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:12 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy at druid.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:47:12 +0530
> Shashwat Anand <anand.shashwat at 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.
>
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