On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 08:53 -0500, dimesio wrote: > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > > Some of us use the mail list as our main or only access to Wine users. > > It was recently explained that the forum feeds posts into the mailing > > list BEFORE the moderators see them. This is a problem: the spam has > > already hit the mailing list before a moderator can see or cancel it, so > > the single thing that would improve our experience is to move that feed > > to a post-moderation pickup point. > > > > That would require someone to read every single new post, several times a day. > Possibly my comment was badly put. What I meant was, that whatever spam detection system is put in place, should deal equally with messages being posted to the forum and sent to the mail list, which isn't happening at present. I can see two possibilities: - use an automated spam tram along the lines that James suggests that queues suspected spam for moderators to review and release or kill. - Use the system Ace suggested, of queueing messages from new users for moderators to review and release or kill. In this case two extra controls would be nice: a 'stop reviewing this poster' button and a 'ban this poster' button. These could both work together and need not be implemented at the same time. Use of either would considerably reduce both spam and the moderator workload. I, personally, would not mind if messages ended up held in these queues for a few hours, so reviewing queued messages need not be a particularly high priority task. Martin
