Disklavier

As an anti-spam protection, since 2008 all new members automatically had their messages moderated and approved by myself or one of my moderators before they were sent out to the group. This could cause of a delay from hours to days before we saw the moderated messages and approved them.

I agree with your procedure... thanks for the update

mus4me

I agree with this procedure, but I was wondering if the system can detect accounts whose email have been hijacked.

Adrian Thomas

On Nov 30 2013, disklavier-owner@yahoogroups.com wrote:

>As an anti-spam protection, since 2008 all new members automatically had their messages moderated and approved by myself or one of my moderators before they were sent out to the group. This could cause of a delay from hours to days before we saw the moderated messages and approved them.
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> We would theoretically remove the moderation once a new member proved to be a contributor and not a spammer. The mechanics of doing this involved several cumbersome steps. As a result, for the last five years, we only took the trouble to remove it for the most active posters.
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> The site has been improved so it is now easy to remove it from large batches of members in bulk. As a result, I have now removed moderation from many hundreds of accounts. As a result, only the two most recent members, who joined this weekend are still moderated.
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> If you joined us since 2008 and were frustrated by the lag in seeing your messages posted, you will now see them appear almost instantly. If you don't contact me directly. Now that the site's management tools have been streamlined, I will cancel moderation for new members within a week or two of joining.
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> My apologies to anyone who has been inconvenienced by the moderation.
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I've always been happy with the group and recommend it to a lot of my customers as a very good source of information and help.

Adrian Thomas

On Dec 1 2013, Todd Muncy wrote:

>I don’t there’s any way to directly know if an email account is hijacked, but Yahoo has a moderately efficient spam filter that catches more than half of the spam traffic that those accounts send. With all the collective safeguards, my experience is we see maybe six spam messages a year get out to the membership. Doing better than that would be difficult and probably not worth the effort. I suspect that only a small minority of the membership who actively post keep the group address in their contact list, which also limits exposure.
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>Most spammers have stopped even trying to hit group boards by joining since new member moderation is now very common. I used to catch and ban plenty of them 5-6 years ago, but I don’t think I’ve caught one in the last couple years. They’ve moved on to comment threads on news sites.
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>Overall I’m very happy with the current state of things. It’s a very respectful membership given how large the group is. I banned a couple trolls years back and never had another problem. Most people also now understand that we are not eBay for Disklaviers and not very useful for those purposes anyway.
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>From: Adrian Thomas
>Sent: Sunday, December 1, 2013 12:00 PM
>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [disklavier] Moderation of disklavier message posts
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>I agree with this procedure, but I was wondering if the system can detect accounts whose email have been hijacked.
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>Adrian Thomas
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>On Nov 30 2013, disklavier-owner@yahoogroups.com wrote:
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>>As an anti-spam protection, since 2008 all new members automatically had their messages moderated and approved by myself or one of my moderators before they were sent out to the group. This could cause of a delay from hours to days before we saw the moderated messages and approved them.
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>> We would theoretically remove the moderation once a new member proved to be a contributor and not a spammer. The mechanics of doing this involved several cumbersome steps. As a result, for the last five years, we only took the trouble to remove it for the most active posters.
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>> The site has been improved so it is now easy to remove it from large batches of members in bulk. As a result, I have now removed moderation from many hundreds of accounts. As a result, only the two most recent members, who joined this weekend are still moderated.
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>> If you joined us since 2008 and were frustrated by the lag in seeing your messages posted, you will now see them appear almost instantly. If you don't contact me directly. Now that the site's management tools have been streamlined, I will cancel moderation for new members within a week or two of joining.
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>> My apologies to anyone who has been inconvenienced by the moderation.
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