Dear B-A and Moderators,
I think that the moderators on B-A should read every post, rather than just those on the “naughty step” (such as myself). This would prevent spam and possibly malware bearing messages, such as the message purporting to be from Andrew Plimer getting through. The link on this morning’s appears to be from a Canadian pharmacy, no doubt offering little blue pills. I get my little blue pills from the Chemist and dutifully take 3 every morning.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
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totally agree
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I agree with Bill – no system is perfect – I get spam from other sources as well even though my mail system filters out most of it. The alternative would probably lead to an overload of the moderators and who knows – maybe no system at all if they all blow a fuse!
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Carl (and others)
It’s a bit of a balance between safety and reader convenience (ie everyone manually moderated and no spam) and speed of posting (ie no moderating and heaps of spam).
The balance that Russell has gone for is, as you know, individual people (new members and, shall we say “some others”) being manually moderated. It’s never going to be a system that’s perfect, as you can see with the occasional bits of spam slipping through, in this case, by claiming to be from an address that is (or, should I say “was”) unmoderated. On the other hand, when people who are on the moderated list post, there’s often a long delay in delivery if no moderators are on-line. There are only about five of us, and particuarly on weekends or at night, we’re not available, so postings have to wait. You may have noticed there’s often a flurry of posts at about 5am on weekdays, as one of the moderators gets up at an unfeasibly early hour (personally I think he has his blackberry inserted in his cranial cavity and he moderates while he sleeps – legend!).
Personally, I’m happy with the way things are.
Bill (also a proud member of the “moderated” list – how does that work?)
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