[NA-Discuss] limericks

[John L]

> I have seen the spam occurring in the forum section only. I used other open
> source forum tools similar to this one that prevents spamming such as the
> one that is happening in the alac site.

Well, as we've been saying, if someone were managing the site, he or she 
or they would be dealing with the spam, mechanically or manually.

Having run a fair number of such sites, I can report that mechanical means 
help but are not perfect.

R's,
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John L [mailto:johnl at iecc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 1:49 PM
> To: Eduardo Diaz
> Cc: Jacqueline Morris; 'Jean Armour Polly'; 'Annette Muehlberg'; Robert
> Guerra; robin at ipjustice.org; NA Discuss
> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] limericks
>
>> I can volunteer to manage it. However, about the forums, I visited them
> and
>> found what it seems to me to be spam. The posts are being used to sell
>> merchandise. Anybody knew about this?
>
> Unfortunately, a large part of the job of managing any participatory web
> site these days is weeding out the spam.  One of the results of nobody
> managing icannalac is that there's lots of spam.
>
> R's,
> John
>
>
>

Regards,
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Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
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