On 24/02/2008, Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:05 AM, David Gerard <dgerard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Additional moderators will help at least to remove such spam quickly. > > They won't help the mailing list. I suggest holding message board > > posts from new posters until they can be verified as non-spam. > That's the right approach. And what a pain it is. > Better to just disable the forum until we have better > automated user filtering and spam filtering. The list runs on Mailman - it's easy to set all new posters default moderated. Slight nuisance for the moderator, and I'm not sure how that would interact with the forum gateway - is the forum gateway something built into phpBB, or a hand-crufted lash-up? - d.
