[GRLUG] GRLUG site

[Dagny Scott]

I'm a member of a Google Groups mailing list with similar traffic to GRLUG,
and I think we've seen spam once or twice in five years.

Dagny

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Roger Roelofs <roger.roelofs at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Google groups aren't perfect.  I remember when the jquery mailing list
> > moved from using google groups to a forum because too much spam was
> > getting through and the moderation tools weren't fine grained enough
> > to allow the admins to deal with it effectively.  I'm not sure our
> > group is big enough to attract that much spammer attention tho.
> >
> > I'm ambivalent.  Whatever works bets for list admins is fine with me.
>
> I've found restricting posting rights to verified users keeps all of
> the spam off of the list. For the GRWebDev and GRPUG Google Groups,
> the first time someone posts, a list admin has to approve that post.
> From then on that person's post are let through without moderation.
> Google also sends admins a list of likely spam posts that are waiting
> for moderation. It's easy to clear out the spam that way. The
> moderation really isn't bad - it even works well on the mobile browser
> - especially if you have a few admins to spread the approval duties.
>
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Casey DuBois <casey at grlug.org>
> wrote:
> >>>> The GRLUG site is moving and I wanted to ask YOUR opinions on using
> Google
> >>>> Groups?
> >>>>
> >>>> How would you feel about shifting the GRLUG mailing list to Google
> Groups,
> >>>> similiar to GR Web Dev and others
> >>>> - http://groups.google.com/group/grwebdev?hl=en&pli=1
> >>>
> >>> Not a real fan of it, myself, but I don't have a good alternative, if
> >>> change is a must.
> >>
> >> Also, if shinobu is going away, I'd like to see an archive of the
> >> mailing list up on archive.org.
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> > Roger
> >
> > Roger Roelofs
> > Know what you value.
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