Re: Handling SPAM posts

Right Peter,
but I like to use the web-based reader from msdn and it has no filtering
capability.
A better solution would be to give a few trusted MVPs or other souls
permission to clean out the offending messages daily, since Microsoft doesn't
seem to care.

--Peter
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"Peter Duniho" wrote:

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:15:00 -0700, Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]
<pbromberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]
If somebody doesn't come up with a good idea or take the bull by the
horns
and get control over this stuff fast, I am gonna simply go somewhere
else.

I for one would be very very sorry to see you go. But I really don't see
how any of us are going to change the spam coming in. It's advertising
web sites based in China, posted through Google. A couple of entities
that don't care about the spam problem.

That said, you could probably improve your own perception of the problem
quite a lot by just filtering out posts that include the words "paypal"
and "www" in the subject. There'd be the occasional false positive I'm
sure and of course those keywords won't catch all of the spam, but on the
whole I'd say it's likely to "fix" the most obvious part of the problem.

Pete

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