Digital BW, The Print

Tom Mark wrote:

>Take a look at my new contest winning picture at:
>http://www.photography-unlimited.jp/winners/?phl=e&photo=S2nLC7yL
>
>Tom
>
>  
>
OK, I'm game, "WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH BLACK AND WHITE? 
 OR EVEN PRINTS? "

I checked the archives, and the only posts this LOSER had in the archive 
were for this some "contest" site..

The last one was at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/message/20583

and another at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/message/16756

Therefore, this member's posts are complete unadulterated spam.  

I suggest banning and removing the poster from the member list AND that 
Martin or Antonis send copies of this to the ISP hosting that contest 
site, citing it as spam.

Also, anyone who subscribes to a spam blocking service should send 
TomMark's address to the spam blocking service..

Obviously this is an infrequent thing, however, on other large lists we 
have gone to a policy of  leaving people as moderated until their first 
post passes muster as non-SPAM..  It keeps the riff-raff away.  You need 
to realize that when a group passes about 2000 people it's a very 
attractive marketing opportunity for spammers.  

If this list already has such a policy, someone was asleep at the wheel. 
If it doesn't I would suggest it needs to be kept in mind for future 
consideration if this problem gets worse..

Keith

"Just some guy," and caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSONx7x_Printers/
 
"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"

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