[HPFGU-OTChatter] SpamGuard

[Shaun Hately]

On 5 Feb 2004 at 2:53, Kathryn Cawte wrote:

> OK, well this is a new and irritating development. I just got four messages
> like this from HPfGU and one from a fic list I'm on.
> 
> Anyone know what YaHell are playing at now?

Yes, they are responding to complaints and are trying to implement 
requested spam controls.

In theory it's a good idea. In practice it looks like they need to 
refine their filters more.

This may prove to be *really* useful for groups that already get a 
lot of spam - on some I am on, 95% of all messages are spam, and 
this will hopefully eventually give people a way of filtering it.

On groups that had fairly low spam levels, it is going to be really 
annoying - hopefully yahoogroups will set up a way that group 
moderators can choose to turn this setting off (I'm about to go 
looking for information on that for my own groups).

Just for the record - on a plain text group, it will be safe to 
open these messages - because the attachments will only plain text.


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