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Spammers attempting to join groups

Donald Hellen All Messages By This Member #35152 We had a spammer try to join some ham radio groups. He made a very general comment that was so general that we knew his next post would be spam, so I notified the group owners and they took swift action. I had another suspicious person try to join one of my ham radio groups today. I let him join but instantly put him on full moderation. His comment when applying to join was this: "I'm an amateur and find this group to be interesting to my needs. Thanks," Similar to a post another (or the same?) person made in that other group. You can see it's so general that it's not at all relevant to our group. I think it was here that someone mentioned these spammers had IP addresses from Belgium and this latest one who joined my group had one I forget the city (or region) but I think it was the same city/region someone else mentioned was the IP address of a potential spammer. It might have been Flanders (though there is an east and west Flanders). I noticed on my phone email that the IP address, city, and country were listed. I also receive all my emails at home and after then they are deleted from the server. The email received from home did not show the IP address, city, or country of that person. Is there something I need to do in my email program to display this part of the message that my phone email program displays? I'd like to see this information so I can be proactive and put those people on moderation in case they are spammers, but I don't want to ban everyone from that area in case they are legitimate ham radio operators, and we even welcome radio enthusiasts and short wave listeners, too. Donald ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: /g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas /g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng /g/CHIRP
Duane All Messages By This Member #35153 On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 08:19 PM, Donald Hellen wrote: I noticed on my phone email that the IP address, city, and country were listed. I also receive all my emails at home and after then they are deleted from the server. The email received from home did not show the IP address, city, or country of that person. If they apply via email using the +subscribe address, none of the extra information is included.? If they apply via the web, it's included.? The email will tell you if they applied via web or email.? Makes no difference which device you're reading the email on. Duane -- The official Groups.io user documentation is in the Groups.io Help Center. GMF's Unofficial Help Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki
Donald Hellen All Messages By This Member #35154 Is there a way to inspect the email manually to get the originating IP address since it may not be present if they subscribe by email? On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 18:27:05 -0800, "Duane" <txpigeon@...> wrote: If they apply via email using the +subscribe address, none of the extra information is included.? If they apply via the web, it's included.? The email will tell you if they applied via web or email.? Makes no difference which device you're reading the email on. ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: /g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas /g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng /g/CHIRP
Larry Finch All Messages By This Member #35155 On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 9:19 PM Donald Hellen <donhellen@...> wrote: We had a spammer try to join some ham radio groups. He made a very general comment that was so general that we knew his next post would be spam, so I notified the group owners and they took swift action. I had another suspicious person try to join one of my ham radio groups today. I let him join but instantly put him on full moderation. One of the great features of gio is you can set it to automatically set new subscribers to moderation, and have it automatically remove them from moderation after a set number of moderated posts, up to 4.? We use it on all groups we host.? Larry -- Larry Finch N 40° 53' 50" W 74° 02' 55"
Shal Farley Member Profile All Messages By This Member #35156 Donald, Is there a way to inspect the email manually to get the originating IP address since it may not be present if they subscribe by email? Not that I know of. I don't believe that messages sent to the +subscribe address are stored anywhere. Just the activity log. Shal -- Help: /helpcenter More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list
Donald Hellen All Messages By This Member #35157 We use the 1 approved post before being able to post without moderation, but we're thinking of changing that to 2. Donald On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:08:21 -0500, "Larry Finch" <Finches@...> wrote: One of the great features of gio is you can set it to automatically set new subscribers to moderation, and have it automatically remove them from moderation after a set number of moderated posts, up to 4. ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: /g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas /g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng /g/CHIRP
Nivard Ovington All Messages By This Member #35159 Hi Donald I have to say I have received replies to my pending subscription questions even more vague than that but turned out to be genuinely interested in the group, some people don't like answering questionnaires so keep it brief Spammers tend not to reply to a pending subscription questionnaire at all or give a generic response, yours mentions amateur, I would not expect that from a spammer If I had received that reply I might consider it is someone with an interest but not the best at communicating or using social media or English wasn't their first language I might add them, or at least send them a message requesting more information, they would be moderated for their first message anyway and if that raised an eyebrow when received you could either unsub them or moderate for a longer period (I have it set as one post then unmoderate and that works well) Your choice of course but just wondered if you were banning a legitimate subscriber Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) toggle quoted message Show quoted text On 23/11/2020 02:16, Donald Hellen wrote: We had a spammer try to join some ham radio groups. He made a very general comment that was so general that we knew his next post would be spam, so I notified the group owners and they took swift action. I had another suspicious person try to join one of my ham radio groups today. I let him join but instantly put him on full moderation. His comment when applying to join was this: "I'm an amateur and find this group to be interesting to my needs. Thanks,"
Curt Gowan Member Profile All Messages By This Member #35178 开云体育 You don't have to make it a questionnaire. Make it a friendly ice-breaker -- as though you just met them in person at a real-world club on the topic.... "We like to know a little about our members.?Do you have your ticket yet -- or how are you studying for it?" or "To help us know what topics to feature, what part of ham radio most interests you?" or "We like to know a little about our members.?What kind of rig do you have now? --cg
Donald Hellen All Messages By This Member #35206 No, not banning the person. Just put him on moderation.? On November 23, 2020 7:34:55 AM "Nivard Ovington" <ovington.one@...> wrote: toggle quoted message Show quoted text Hi Donald I have to say I have received replies to my pending subscription? questions even more vague than that but turned out to be genuinely? interested in the group, some people don't like answering questionnaires? so keep it brief Spammers tend not to reply to a pending subscription questionnaire at? all or give a generic response, yours mentions amateur, I would not? expect that from a spammer If I had received that reply I might consider it is someone with an? interest but not the best at communicating or using social media or? English wasn't their first language I might add them, or at least send them a message requesting more? information, they would be moderated for their first message anyway and? if that raised an eyebrow when received you could either unsub them or? moderate for a longer period (I have it set as one post then unmoderate? and that works well) Your choice of course but just wondered if you were banning a legitimate? subscriber Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 23/11/2020 02:16, Donald Hellen wrote: We had a spammer try to join some ham radio groups. He made a very general comment that was so general that we knew his next post would be spam, so I notified the group owners and they took swift action. I had another suspicious person try to join one of my ham radio groups today. I let him join but instantly put him on full moderation. His comment when applying to join was this: "I'm an amateur and find this group to be interesting to my needs. Thanks,"

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