[Imc-web] Re: [IMC-Tech] Shutting Down Comments or the Site Until New Site is Live

[Mike Lehman]

OK, I'm pretty confused about things in general these days after the 
trauma of last week's prelim.
;>)

I would say to go ahead an put the imc-web list on moderate, as long as 
you're still getting daily notices to check it for anything that might 
happen to come in that is legit. I know the email lists are pretty much 
a mess these days, too. The blacklists are just not keeping up, even 
though I've been skimming new additions as I find them and sending them 
to Dan to add into them.

My concern on the website is that we've been getting so much adcrap 
there that it has been hard to get into the site to delete it. It may 
actually be the combination of that and the continued massive spamming 
of imsahp is just slowing access down for everything at the IMC. In the 
case of the website, once it gets so that we can no longer effectively 
admin it, we are going to have to pull the plug, as the usual crowd will 
next be dancing around claiming our "corporate" lifestyle now includes 
hosting ads. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but it -- both the website 
and the email spam -- has gotten rather unmanageable.
Mike Lehman

Wendy Edwards wrote:
> No, actually I meant putting the mailing list "imc-web" on 
> moderated status - we were getting a lot of spam.
>
> Wendy
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> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:05:52AM -0500, Mike Lehman wrote:
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>> Wendy asked a week or so about putting the website on moderated status. 
>> I agreed then it might be a good idea. Since then, things have only 
>> gotten worse. While correlation is not necessarily cuasation, it should 
>> be noted that the problem seems to go worse whenever the 0mostly) 
>> Anonymous Vultures of the IMC Network starts circling. I've had my 
>> suspicions about such a linkage for a long time, but proof is really 
>> largely irrelevant at this point.
>>
>> Given that it has become impossible to consistently get access to the 
>> site because it is overloaded with incoming spam posts in order to keep 
>> the spam cleaned up, I suggest that it is time to turn on moderation 
>> until the new site is up. The spam is apparently at the point where it 
>> overloads the server's ability to allow access from us to purge it. If 
>> we can't simply shut down comments, then I suggest that we put the whole 
>> site on moderation. I'm willing to write and post the notice if someone 
>> else can take care of the technical end of things.
>> Mike Lehman
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