Mark Bole <makbo[at]pacbell.net> writes:
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It's a "wetware" glitch, not a glitch in the moderation
software. The spam postings that have shown up in the past
few days were accidentally approved by the moderators. Even
the moderators sometimes make mistakes. Well, the ones other
than Dick, anyway :-).

I can cancel the spam messages that get approved by accident,
but they usually leak out to everywhere before I can do that
(it only takes a few minutes after they're approved before
they are transmitted everywhere, and many sites don't accept
cancel messages, which means even when I generate cancel
messages, some people are unfortunately still going to see
the spam.

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========================================= MODERATOR'S COMMENT:
So why did this come via the moderation process?

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"Mark Bole" <makbo[at]pacbell.net> wrote
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Nope. I think it's a good idea.


And it gives Dick a break to attend more beer tasting competitions - not to
mention all the practice hours.




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Paul A. Thomas, CPA
Athens, Georgia

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Paul Thomas wrote:


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See the subject line of another recent spam posting here: "10 good
reasons for being longer".

Sure, some threads go on much longer than they would have under the
previous manual moderation system, but I think the trade-off is worth
it. Earlier this year, you posted a strong endorsement of
robo-moderation, hopefully you are not re-considering your position.

-Mark Bole

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Mark Bole wrote:
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The last one was my bad. For what it's worth, I was on a conference
call, and got distracted. Once I hit 'sent', that was that. No more
multitasking for me, and apologies to the group.
Joe

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"Mark Bole" <makbo[at]pacbell.net> wrote
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So what are you saying? That any post that talks about the landlord "double
dipping" will be culled out as spam?





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Athens, Georgia

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Dick Adams wrote:
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Just to clarify for the readers: the main thing that is "robo" about
robo-moderation is that messages from known good posters (the
pre-approved list) go through automatically. All other posts are still
subject to human review, although spam that is detectable as such will
not waste their time. (Folks get on the pre-approved list after
establishing a positive record of contributions according to the group
charter and guidelines).

The trickle of recent spam postings is probably some other kind of
glitch. The good news is, the person (Jonathan Kamens) who manages this
software (STUMP) for the group knows what he is doing and will
undoubtedly get it straightened out soon.

-Mark Bole

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This garbage slipped through the cracks.
Under robo-moderation, sometimes that happens.
Once is enough to put everyone on notice and
I presume this sociopath's e-mail address is
now in the "burn-before-read" file.

Dick

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"fdasffda" wrote:

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Yo, Dick! Get the kid off the computer!

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Clarksburg, MD

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