horrible spam

[David Gerard]

2009/11/29 Barton C Massey <bart at 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.