Digital BW, The Print

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sceptre12345 [mailto:am1000@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 7:24 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: -- SPAM
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "sceptre12345"
> <am1000@v...> wrote:
> >
> > This is pure spam!!!
> >
> > Several list have been ruined by this kind of spam, one of them
> being
> > a Yahoo group called russiancamera \ufffd Russian Camera Collectors &
> > Users Group.
> >
> > Might be a good time to reflect on how this list can prevent spam.
> > Cheers,
> > Andre
>
> I've got to ask this: why kluvsya2 was allowed membership into this
> group ?
>

Andre,

Membership to the group is not screened and anyone with a Yahoo account is
free to joint the group. We felt screening would have been pointless as we
would did not have the resources or the time to check people out. The best I
can do with someone like this is delete their post, cancel their membership
and ban them from future membership under that e-mail address.

In this case I received an automatic e-mail on 7/4 that this person,
originally using the user name of "kluvsya2" had joined the group. A search
of the membership list does not show that there is such a member. Membership
activity shows that "kluvsya2 <kluvsya2@...>" changed their user name
and e-mail to "modelkara <modelkara@...>" about 30 minutes after the
spam post. There is no record of a "modelkara" in the membership lists or of
them leaving the group. In part this may be due to the very slow update
times of Yahoo Groups.

Generally the fact that you have to join the to post messages keeps people
from spamming the group address but if someone wants to join and go to the
trouble of switching e-mails and user names there really isn't a much we can
do to catch up with them.

All in all, I think the list has been pretty spam free and there have been
less than 10 such message over 2 years and 33,000 posts. Obviously as the
group continues to grow we become a more attractive target but even at 3164
members it doesn't seem like it would be worth a spammer's time. Hopefully
we will not see much more of this.

Martin Wesley
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