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Justin Mason wrote:
> There's a middle ground -- moderating posts by non-subscribers,
> hand-approving all of those that are not spam, and blocking the spam ones.
> As long as non-subscribers are open to waiting an hour or two before their
> post is delivered, this works OK.
Seems like a good compromise. Since we filter attachments, can I
suggest dumping messages with an empty body? There's a load of them
getting through.
> This is pretty tragic, btw: ILUG is not the only list in this position.
> yet another case where spam is gumming up the works of the internet :(
Tell me about it. My online gallery (written myself so not bots
looking for a particular PHP app) gets comment spammed and spam for
new accounts. A phpBB board I admin was getting spammed despite using
a CAPTCHA so now I have to manually approve all accounts >:-(
Regards,
Cian
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