Digital BW, The Print

Hi Paul,

Just my .02 if you don't mind...

I would vote to continue with your current procedure for handling these types of e-mails--deletion, banning, etc.--and live with the few that we're getting. I really don't think you and/or Antonis should be wasting what I'm sure is valuable time reviewing each and every post to the list. Just my opinion, of course.

Based on my experience with this forum, it seems that this recent spamming has been exactly that; pretty much recent...and really has not been that bad. For me, personally, when I see a message with no content other than something like "New picture here..." with a link I don't click on it. Also, after not too much time on this list one gets to the point of recognizing most of the "usual suspects." Again, if I don't recognize the posters name, I don't click. Simple and effective!

Anyway, just my .02 as I said earlier. Thanks for listening.

Alan Huntley

> 
> From: "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...>
> Date: 2003/10/01 Wed PM 07:44:45 EDT
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: SPAM --  [Digital BW] New Pictures Here...
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Thanks for the warning. The post has been deleted and the sending e-mail
> address has been banned
> 
> Antonis and I have kicked around some ideas of what to do about this recent
> attack of hit-and-run spam. The only possibility aside from ignoring and
> living with it would be to change the settings on the group so that the all
> new members automatically are on Moderated status in regards to their posts.
> In other words their initial post(s) would not go to the forum until either
> I or Antonis approved it.
> 
> The plus side is that this would filter out all of the spam like the "New
> Pictures Here..." type.
> 
> The down side is that Antonis and I are not always monitoring the list,
> particularly where pending messages are shown. The result would be that new
> members wanting to post for the first time would not get their message
> posted for several hours to several days or weeks even. This would effect
> the first post of people who lurked for a year or two before making a post
> as well. No current member would be effected though. Also this would be more
> work for us since we would have to manually take each new member off
> Moderated status when they decided to start posting.
> 
> I am rather inclined to suffer with the junk but I would appreciate any
> thoughts and opinions.
> 
> Martin
> 
> * -----Original Message-----
> * From: Paul Roark [mailto:paul.roark@...] 
> * Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 4:16 PM
> * To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> * Subject: SPAM -- [Digital BW] New Pictures Here...
> * 
> * 
> * DON'T OPEN THIS SPAM.
> * 
> * Paul
> * http://www.PaulRoark.com
> * ________________
> * 
> * -----Original Message-----
> * From: hippert140140 [mailto:hippert140140@...]
> * Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 3:33 PM
> * To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> * Subject: [Digital BW] New Pictures Here...
> * 
> * 
> * http://www.geocities.com(snip)
> * 
> * 
> 
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