[antlr-interest] Re: Not moderating == not professional

[Paul Selormey]

Hello Terence,
Thanks for coming out. Well, you have missed the stuff.
The name is just one way to prevent it, but I will not discuss
all the tricks over the list since many of the spammers are still
registered on the list.

Now, to answer your question - yahoo has a feature when turned
on will enable you to moderate the first post of a new member. This is
a technical list and not everyone can just post "meaningfully" -
hope you are getting the picture. From the first post you know if the
person belongs here and could determine whether to keep him/her
on the list and the first post never gets to the list unless approved.

Best regards,
Paul.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terence Parr" <parrt at cs.usfca.edu>
To: <antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Re: Not moderating == not professional


> Sorry folks.  I know SPAM sucks, but if you think moderating will help,
> you've not thought much about spam ;)  The only thing that will work is
> if I manually check each and every message not the user.  Sorry, but
> that would reduce the timeliness of this list and make it not nearly as
> good.  I've got enough work keeping the site up, writing articles for
> it, fixing bugs, doing the new version and doing my teaching gig.
>
> I might as well spell out the problem: i can moderate so
> "sexy at ireallylikedoingnaughtythingstofarmanimals.com" can't post, but
> they will simply change their email address to
> "Paul_Selormey at hatesspam.com" or
> "dotlessbraille at iamnotwhoyouthinkiam.com".  The minute I block those,
> they reappear with a different email.  You are fighting a losing
> battle.  The only solution is to attack with DOS and have your ISP down
> on you or let's all start hammering the yahoo guys to attack these
> spammers since Loring says they are coming from the same place just
> different emails.
>
> Shall we all flood the yahoo complaint email?
>
> Surely you see that moderation is not an option.  May we dispense with
> this conversation about moderation now?
>
> Let's get yahoo to do something.
>
> your commiserating, but nonmoderator, ;)
> parrt secretly aliased as parrt2000 ;)
>
> On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 09:18  PM, brian-l-smith at uiowa.edu
> wrote:
>
> > Quoting Paul Selormey <paul at toolscenter.org>:
> >
> >> The moderator is only listed as parrt2000, I do not know why he has
> >> still not responded to a request to moderate the list or let anyone
> >> interested to.
> >>
> >> parrt2000 come out and lets clean the spammers from the list.
> >
> > We already had this discussion like a month ago and he did respond.
> > RTFA:
> > Threads "spam" and "spam/IRONIC." By the way, Terence Parr = parrt2000.
> > Unfortunately, the problem seems to be getting worse as (a) the
> > quantity of spam
> > has increased a lot, and (b) the said spam is no longer hilarious as
> > it was before.
> >
> > Spam filtering tip: "[antlr-interest] i'm having an orgy party at my
> > place" is
> > probably not the subject line of an email containing a detailed
> > discourse on the
> > merits of predicated-LL(k) parsing.
> >
> > Love,
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
> > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> >
> >
> >
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