At 12:32 PM 3/3/2003, nolan@celery.tssi.com wrote:
>I have perl scripts which peruse the logs for new subscribers and
>activate posting privileges, and also perl scripts that I can 'bounce'
>e-mail to which activate or de-activate posting privileges for the poster.
Mj2 (the unreleased-but-done rewrite of Majordomo) and Listserv both
can set "new subscriber" flags that moderate individual subscribers
until some event clears the flag. I stopped several dedicated
spammers with a personal grudge by moderating new subscribers
until the list owner clears the flag.
At 12:05 PM 3/3/2003, David W. Tamkin wrote:
>Have we seen anyone willing to participate in on-topic discussion before
>getting the spam in? Maybe moderating new users is still effective.
The bad guys can't seem to make more than one useful post in a row!
I've found it to be remarkably easy and effective to screen the first
post and then turn them loose.
It's not too much of a workload to approve 1 or 2 posts for new
subscribers, then clear the post blocking flag, especially since
most people seem to lurk instead of post actively, and all but one
or two people have been grateful to know why the signal-to-noise
ratio has stayed so good for so many years.
Steve
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