Our recent changes to control SPAM on this forum are working. I can't recall seeing a single SPAM get to the forum in the past 2 weeks.
One new policy is that all new member registrations are reviewed, and each one must be explicitly approved. For brand new members, that means they register on the forum, then they must get approved before they can do their first reply to a message (or create their first thread). The approval gets sent in an email.
For the moderators, that means daily activity to review and approve new members. There is also a review process for all new threads on the the want-ads subforum. Most of this moderation and approval is currently being done by Steve Worcester and Ken Grunke. Thanks to them for this daily filtering!
If any new legitimate member is unable to access the forum to do a post or a reply please email me or Steve. My email is jjilg@sbcglobal.net
I am still spending my AAW time on getting the new shopping cart and symposium registration accomplished, with a target of Oct 31 for both of them. The symposium registration feature should be done by then, but we'll probably make it available in January.
One new policy is that all new member registrations are reviewed, and each one must be explicitly approved. For brand new members, that means they register on the forum, then they must get approved before they can do their first reply to a message (or create their first thread). The approval gets sent in an email.
For the moderators, that means daily activity to review and approve new members. There is also a review process for all new threads on the the want-ads subforum. Most of this moderation and approval is currently being done by Steve Worcester and Ken Grunke. Thanks to them for this daily filtering!
If any new legitimate member is unable to access the forum to do a post or a reply please email me or Steve. My email is jjilg@sbcglobal.net
I am still spending my AAW time on getting the new shopping cart and symposium registration accomplished, with a target of Oct 31 for both of them. The symposium registration feature should be done by then, but we'll probably make it available in January.
