[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: A note about the SPAM flags

[Shaun Hately]

On 6 Feb 2004 at 0:32, pengolodh_sc wrote:

> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter, "Przemyslaw Plaskowicki" wrote:
> [snip]
> > Because:
> [snip]
> > d) As not being an Admin, I possibly does not
> > have enough knowledge about this. Admins, I
> > think, receive more detailed messages about
> > what goes 'under the hood' of lists.
> 
> In this I believe you know as much as the admins.  I am ranked as a 
> mdoerator on another Yahoo!Group, and never received any information 
> from Yahoo!Groups about this - it just suddenly was implemented.

Yep, that's pretty much the experience of every moderator I know - 
that's why I went searching for how to turn it off - it was 
wreaking sudden havoc on one of the groups I moderate.

I do understand why they automatically implemented it - I'm on 
groups where the moderators have all vanished and 95% of the posts 
to those groups are spam now - if they get these filters well, 
they'll be very good for groups like that.

But they could have warned us all - and the current implementation 
seems horribly flawed (I have actually seen worse implementation of 
spam filters on one occasion - a system which wound up excluding 
non-spam and allowing spam posts and for one brief glorious period 
was actually *replacing* non-spam messages with the last 
distributed spam method.

It would have been absolutely hillarious - if I hadn't been in 
overall charge of the team that developed the filter (No, I was 
*not* directly involved - but they were technically speaking under 
my supervision).




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