Re: spam

Rob MacGregor wrote:

> I've seen this hit other SF hosted lists lately, so you're not alone.
> Do SF offer the option of having the admin validate signups, so that
> you have to approve them?  I don't know how much of a load it would be
> for you, but while this is ongoing it *may* help cut down the spam
> (not that I suspect it would stop it completely).

I believe that yes, there are options for:
  manually approving all sign-ups;
  manually approving posts from new users

While the number of sign-ups is small (less than five a day) and the
number of posts *from* new users is also small, many of those new users
are having difficulty with rsnapshot and want help.  Delaying giving
them help is bad for them and is bad for the rest of us too, as delaying
helping new users for any piece of software often results in the user
going elsewhere and using something else.  Fewer users for rsnapshot
means fewer good ideas, fewer bug reports, and fewer people to help the
next new user (and so more work for those of us already here :-).

So I *really* don't want to moderate new users, especially when it might
take a couple of days to get round to approving them.  I'll do it if the
spam problem gets bad, but right now it's acceptable.  Well, as
acceptable as spam gets.  Those of you who have seen me posting
elsewhere will know that I am something of an extremist when it comes to
being intolerant of spammers, so I didn't decide that lightly!

-- 
David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence

      Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups

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