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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: horrible spam
From:       David Gerard <dgerard () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-11-29 22:00:26
Message-ID: fbad4e140911291400g271376cet73543db4bb217093 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2009/11/29 Barton C Massey <bart@cs.pdx.edu>:

> Options I can think of offhand include
>  * moderating all postings, for which we would need a
>    dedicated team of volunteers
>  * moderating subscriptions, which seems hard
>  * more sophisticated captchas, perhaps x related, but I
>    doubt this would solve the problem
> Discussion welcome, but it beats me what we can feasibly do
> to avoid a repeat.


Putting new posters default on moderation and unmoderating when their
first post proves human may be workable ... can get slightly laborious
for the mods. (I listmod a list with a serious troll problem and this
approach works reasonably well for us. It is a damn nuisance though.)


- d.
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