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Miscellaneous => The Water Cooler -- General Discussions => Topic started by: backupr9 on October 08, 2011, 10:08:10 AM

Title: DEALING WITH SPAMMERS
Post by: backupr9 on October 08, 2011, 10:08:10 AM

Could we not go to "modify" and add "SPAM" to the subject line of these postings so no-one will have to open them to find out that they are spam?

Title: Re: DEALING WITH SPAMMERS
Post by: yankee2500 on October 08, 2011, 10:29:59 AM

Only Duane would have that power. ;D

Title: Re: DEALING WITH SPAMMERS
Post by: kjtrains on October 08, 2011, 11:16:46 AM

Very true!    :)

Title: Re: DEALING WITH SPAMMERS
Post by: backupr9 on October 08, 2011, 08:58:29 PM

How about it Duane?

Title: Re: DEALING WITH SPAMMERS
Post by: Richard S on October 10, 2011, 02:12:18 PM

Note the spammer's sudden absence. Thank you, Duane!

Title: Re: DEALING WITH SPAMMERS
Post by: kjtrains on October 10, 2011, 02:36:29 PM

Appreciate the good work, Duane.  Thanks, too!

Title: Re: DEALING WITH SPAMMERS
Post by: DDGator on October 12, 2011, 09:56:56 AM

Several members do a good job of keeping me in the loop.  I usually look every morning, but sometimes work or life interferes.

I think you can change the topic that comes up in the most recent displays view, but not the actual thread title.

I am hoping for a "report spam" button at some time in the future with a one-step removal process for me.  I even toyed with an idea that users with more than a certain number of posts here could blow out spammers with one click.  I am just not sure if that is possible as a practical matter.

The war, however, is on.

I have started deleting some of them before they even post their first message -- because I can see the pattern based upon their username, e-mail address, and time of registration (always the wee hours of the morning in the Western world).

Unlike the criminal justice sytems, which is designed to let some guilty men go free so that innocent men never go to jail -- my system allows for a certain number of innocents to get nuked. ;)  We can always fix it later.

Title: Re: DEALING WITH SPAMMERS
Post by: yankee2500 on October 12, 2011, 07:22:28 PM

Well put Duane. ;D

Nuke-em all sort them out later. ;D ;D

Title: Re: DEALING WITH SPAMMERS
Post by: kjtrains on October 12, 2011, 07:30:38 PM

Yep.  Duane.  Take 'em out.  Let us know if we can help.