On 09 Jan 2020 01:21, Bruce Bowman wrote:
The "bad guys" tend to be quickly discouraged by anything that asks them to identify themselves.
This is true, but unfortunately Groups.io's subscribe procedures are multi-stepped and the first step is verifying the e-mail address only.
On Yahoogroups, often when I tried to I tried to join a group via the web, I had to write a reason for joining immediately, as part of the same process.
Is there a known reason why the Groups.io developers do not include a question box on the sign-up page, e.g. "Tell us a bit more about yourself and why you want to join this group"? I was able to weed out spammers quite easily using that field on Yahoogroups (e.g. when the spammer replied in a language that is not the group's main language, or when the spammer replied with something extremely generic).
Samuel
Samuel Murray