# Eliminating spam on Ruby Forum **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 11, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eliminating-spam-on-ruby-forum/109052 "2007-07-11T00:49:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kapslok)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eliminating-spam-on-ruby-forum/109052/1 "2007-07-11T00:49:53Z")
I don’t know about you guys and gals, but the daily spam messages making their way into these forums is giving me the $hit$. I think what we need is a button to mark messages as spam, so someone can blow them away, and then ban the user. If there’s no moderator, I can imagine it’s not something someone would want to do constantly, maybe a ranking system where, say more than 10 votes from unique users automatically kills the message and puts the user into a black list. That way the forum users are the spam police. What do you people think? This is a cross-post with ROR Forum, please oly reply to one post. ---
**Author:** ![kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kapslok)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eliminating-spam-on-ruby-forum/109052/2 "2007-07-11T00:57:25Z")
On 7/10/07, Kaps L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I don’t know about you guys and gals, but the daily spam messages making > their way into these forums is giving me the $hit$. I think what we need > is a button to mark messages as spam, so someone can blow them away, and > then ban the user. > > If there’s no moderator, I can imagine it’s not something someone would > want to do constantly, maybe a ranking system where, say more than 10 > votes from unique users automatically kills the message and puts the > user into a black list. That way the forum users are the spam police. Ruby Forum isn’t really anything except a third party interface to mailing lists. If you look at the other side of the RubyTalk → news group gateway, you’ll find the spam isn’t a problem for the RubyTalk list, so it must be the rails list that’s having issues. [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/topics](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/topics) > What do you people think? > > This is a cross-post with ROR Forum, please oly reply to one post. Just don’t cross post. Write two emails instead. ---
**Author:** ![kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kapslok)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eliminating-spam-on-ruby-forum/109052/3 "2007-07-11T01:04:02Z")
Gregory B. wrote: > Ruby Forum isn’t really anything except a third party interface to > mailing lists. > If you look at the other side of the RubyTalk → news group gateway, > you’ll find the spam isn’t a problem for the RubyTalk list, so it must > be the rails list that’s having issues. > > [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/topics](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/topics) Well there ya go - they say you learn something new every day. Thanks Gregory. ---
**Author:** ![kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kapslok)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eliminating-spam-on-ruby-forum/109052/4 "2007-07-11T01:07:26Z")
On Jul 10, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Kaps L. wrote: > want to do constantly, maybe a ranking system where, say more than 10 > votes from unique users automatically kills the message and puts the > user into a black list. That way the forum users are the spam police. > > What do you people think? > > This is a cross-post with ROR Forum, please oly reply to one post. > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). If you could make that happen in a way that kept the message from going out to the mailing list in the first place, THEN you’d really have something 😉 Someone posted a list of the email addresses that were generating most of the spam (_thank you_ whoever you are!) and it’s really not a problem once I added a spam rule to my Mail client. My list has 13 addresses now and if I notice two spammy messages from the same email, onto the list it goes! -Rob Rob B. [http://agileconsultingllc.com](http://agileconsultingllc.com) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kapslok)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 2:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eliminating-spam-on-ruby-forum/109052/5 "2007-07-11T02:19:30Z")
On Jul 10, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Rob B. wrote: > > would > > -Rob > > Rob B. [http://agileconsultingllc.com](http://agileconsultingllc.com) > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Does this thread count as spam? ---
**Author:** ![kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kapslok)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eliminating-spam-on-ruby-forum/109052/6 "2007-07-11T16:03:56Z")
Kaps L. wrote: > What do you people think? I don’t think this can happen as the forum is gated to the comp.lang.ruby newsgroup and the messages posted in this newsgroup, such as this one, are gated into the forum. Probably most of the spam you are seeing is the same spam that is infesting the rest of usenet.