Digital BW, The Print

Alan,

>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.

I agree.

When one does find one of these, however, labeling it as such to save others
the time might be worth while.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com
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>
> 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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