[Imc-web] Advertising

[meghan at ucimc.org]

On a related note, as a list moderator I'm getting an email every single 
time some crap is sent to the Print list. I'd like to change the list 
options (at least on the lists I moderate, if not all) to only notify 
moderators once each day of what is waiting to be moderated. Is there any 
problem with this?

-meghan

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Mike Lehman wrote:

> This is just a heads up that the spamming of the website with advertising is 
> getting out of hand. Whoever is doing it is now hitting us with dozens, and 
> now, or even hundreds of these pieces of electronic excrement daily. I 
> removed somewhere in the vicinity of a hundred over th course of the day 
> yesterday and then had to delete 9 pages worth (on the editoral screen) this 
> morning.
>
> Last week I took a crude survey of other US IMC's to see how this was 
> affecting them. Oddly, despite the large number of IMCs now using Dada, only 
> Arkansas IMC and ours seem to be targetted (unless there are other editors 
> spending just as much time deleting this shit as I am.) While it  seems 
> confined to taking over our recent comments page, it is getting pretty 
> obnoxious and is sorely in need of a technical fix to solve.
>
> The only (crude) thing that I can think of that would start to address the 
> problem is to disable the "View Comments" page. I am not sure this will do 
> much, but it will certainly conceal what does occur until the mess can be 
> periodically wiped away. perhaps discouraging the idoit whop somehow may 
> think this will bring in customers. Or perhaps it is one of our old enemies, 
> just trying to make things difficult for us under these false pretenses.
>
> Obviously, in the long run a technical fix within Dada needs to occur. I 
> would greatly appreciate it if someone qualified could start looking into 
> this ASAP. At the very least, we need to see if the possibility of using IP 
> blocking is a viable option. I want to formally request authorization to do 
> so at this week's Steering meeting. What do people think?
> Mike Lehman
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