| Introducing RSD No Spam [message #42962] |
Mon, 26 October 2009 11:31  |
Dave
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Introducing RSD No Spam at http://www.rsdnospam.com
From the name of the site you can probably figure out what it does. Click the link, check it out, let me know what you think.
A list of FAQs is available here: http://www.rsdnospam.com/index.php?t=msg&th=11057
I'm anticipating that I'll need to spend some extra money in the near future to keep this hosted and free so please use the "Donate" link on the site generously.
If you have other questions, post them on the forum or here and I'll add them to the FAQ list. Thanks to everyone that helped test out the site and make sure things worked as planned. Hopefully we found most of the problems so that things work smoothly for now. If you're interested in helping to moderate the spam on the site so that we can keep it spam-free, email me at admin@rsdnospam.com and I can get you set up.
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #42991 is a reply to message #42988] |
Mon, 26 October 2009 13:20  |
Douglas T Lilley
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On Oct 26, 3:26 pm, Torre <torre[dot]hargett[at]gmail[dot]com> wrote:
> bumping this up.
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> site is great. nice work dave.
Boy if I understand this correctly that is one elegant solution to our
little spam issue, well done.
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #43004 is a reply to message #42991] |
Mon, 26 October 2009 15:38 |
Dave
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Douglas T Lilley wrote on Mon, 26 October 2009 13:20
Boy if I understand this correctly that is one elegant solution to our little spam issue, well done.
It does a pretty good job of getting rid of the spam but does require some moderation. Things have been running smoothly up to this point so I think users will be happy with the site.
RSD No Spam also does two-way syncing so you never have to visit the spam-plagued Google Groups site if you don't want to.
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #43120 is a reply to message #43118] |
Mon, 26 October 2009 22:14 |
Dave
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wiggity wrote on Mon, 26 October 2009 21:30Do our current Google accounts work to post in the new forum? Or will
we need to sign-up? Thanks for the effort, Dave.
If you've posted on RSD in the past year or so you should be able to go here: http://www.rsdnospam.com/index.php?t=reset and enter the email address that you posted from to have the password emailed to you. If you have any trouble let me know.
If you've posted from an account that had a fake email to get rid of spam, you can email me and I'll change the email on your account and reset the password for you.
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #43193 is a reply to message #43121] |
Tue, 27 October 2009 11:11 |
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On Oct 27, 1:32 am, chrisRunner7 <chrismellon[at]gmail[dot]com> wrote:
> Awesome. Just awesome. Now I've gotta see if I followed
> the instructions correctly and this message shows up in
> Google Groups...
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> Posted fromhttp://www.rsdnospam.com
Dave, I love rsdnospam. Its already a favorite on my browser...
The one thing I've noticed, after trying the bottom tree view in this
forum, is that its not quite as use-able as the left tree view on
google groups. I have to scroll down, select the message I want to
view, then scroll back up.
But still, rsd is the way discussion ought to be and rec.sport.disc
used to be. Thanks for putting time into this.
--ben
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #43195 is a reply to message #43193] |
Tue, 27 October 2009 11:18 |
Dave
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Ben Spears wrote on Tue, 27 October 2009 11:11On Oct 27, 1:32 am, chrisRunner7 wrote:
> Awesome. Just awesome. Now I've gotta see if I followed
> the instructions correctly and this message shows up in
> Google Groups...
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> Posted from http://www.rsdnospam.com
Dave, I love rsdnospam. Its already a favorite on my browser...
The one thing I've noticed, after trying the bottom tree view in this forum, is that its not quite as use-able as the left tree view on google groups. I have to scroll down, select the message I want to view, then scroll back up.
But still, rsd is the way discussion ought to be and rec.sport.disc
used to be. Thanks for putting time into this.
--ben
Agreed on the tree-view. Something I'll look into fixing in the future. Thanks for the feedback, Ben.
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #43200 is a reply to message #43199] |
Tue, 27 October 2009 11:28 |
Dave
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joaqman wrote on Tue, 27 October 2009 11:26The only issue is all the bumping that happens over on google groups.
Love it.
Agreed, hopefully people can get out of the habit of bumping, it's pretty annoying. With no spam I would hope that it won't be as big of a problem.
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #43294 is a reply to message #43200] |
Wed, 28 October 2009 09:09 |
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On Oct 27, 12:28 pm, Dave <ad...@rsdnospam.com> wrote:
> joaqman wrote on Tue, 27 October 2009 11:26
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> > The only issue is all the bumping that happens over on
> > google groups.
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> > Love it.
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> Agreed, hopefully people can get out of the habit of
> bumping, it's pretty annoying. With no spam I would hope
> that it won't be as big of a problem.
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> Posted fromhttp://www.rsdnospam.com
bump
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #43296 is a reply to message #43294] |
Wed, 28 October 2009 09:32 |
H
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On Oct 28, 10:09 am, H <ahalv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 27, 12:28 pm, Dave <ad...@rsdnospam.com> wrote:
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> > joaqman wrote on Tue, 27 October 2009 11:26
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> > > The only issue is all the bumping that happens over on
> > > google groups.
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> > > Love it.
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> > Agreed, hopefully people can get out of the habit of
> > bumping, it's pretty annoying. With no spam I would hope
> > that it won't be as big of a problem.
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> > Posted fromhttp://www.rsdnospam.com
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> bump
I haven't explored RSDNoSpam too much yet, but I'm noticing that there
are messages on RSDNoSpam that aren't showing up on RSD. Is that how
it's supposed to be?
h
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #43299 is a reply to message #43296] |
Wed, 28 October 2009 10:24 |
Dave
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H wrote on Wed, 28 October 2009 09:32
I haven't explored RSDNoSpam too much yet, but I'm noticing that there are messages on RSDNoSpam that aren't showing up on RSD. Is that how it's supposed to be?
h
That's not how it's supposed to be. If you have some examples I can look into, I would be very interested.
One example I found was on this thread
(RSD) http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.disc/browse_thread/ thread/e0c8e23240665c67/263a4b85ae54755f?lnk=raot#263a4b85ae 54755f
(RSDNoSpam) http://www.rsdnospam.com/index.php?t=msg&th=10575&st art=0&
In this case my best guess is that Google Groups is suppressing what it thinks are duplicate posts while my software is simply posting everything. If you have some more examples I would love to look into it and see if this pattern hold or if there is something bigger going on.
Sometimes, as noted in the FAQ, the server we use to post to USENET doesn't respond correctly. Since the service is free we can't really afford to pay for a 100% reliable solution but so far the current solution has been working pretty well. I'll definitely look into different strategies to try and make things more reliable.
-Dave
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #43337 is a reply to message #43299] |
Wed, 28 October 2009 17:01 |
throw
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Dave,
If I wanted to toss 1 or 2 or 5 or 10 or $20 lamb tongues in the
mail.....instead of the credit card route...what's the mailing
address?
Hank & Co.
www.thisisultimate.com
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #45731 is a reply to message #45727] |
Sun, 15 November 2009 17:24 |
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my posts never post to the message group formerly known as RSD...
also, i'm against limiting people from posting because they post a lot, in response to anything bordering on a certain topic. if we limit those people, i would like to limit those that annoy me when they post.
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #45774 is a reply to message #45722] |
Mon, 16 November 2009 07:20 |
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Joe S.
> Great job. How much control do you have on the forum? That is, could
> you limit any one person to a maximum number of posts in one month
> which would really help with anyone highjacking threads with huge
> number of posts.>>>>>
Questions for Dave bump...
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #45801 is a reply to message #45727] |
Mon, 16 November 2009 10:08 |
Dave
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ckerr4 wrote on Sun, 15 November 2009 15:43Dave:
What would you need to speed up the posting from rsdnospam to rsdspam? What would it cost?
Charles
Speeding up the posting is kind of out of my control. Once the post gets into the USENET system it's up to Google to put it on their Google Groups page.
Making the posting more reliable is the next issue I'm going to be addressing and I'm not sure how much time that will take. Once I have some more time to devot to it I'll be able to track down the problems that users like Mimmo are having with posts not getting back to Google's RSD. Hopefully some small changes will fix things but I won't know until I can identify the problem.
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #45802 is a reply to message #45722] |
Mon, 16 November 2009 10:10 |
Dave
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Joe Seidler wrote on Sun, 15 November 2009 09:52On Nov 15, 9:26 am, Throw <i...@ThisIsUltimate.com[/email]> wrote:
> something light bump
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> http://cgi.ebay.com/Leif-Garrett-Frisbee-Scarce-1970s-Spanis h-Card-B_...
Great job. How much control do you have on the forum? That is, could
you limit any one person to a maximum number of posts in one month
which would really help with anyone highjacking threads with huge
number of posts.
I don't have any plans for limiting posting for anyone unless they start posting blatant spam that is unrelated to the topic(s) of RSD. Beyond that this is an open forum for anyone to post their thoughts to.
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #46059 is a reply to message #45801] |
Thu, 19 November 2009 07:20 |
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Dave:
I created a thread last night on the Henry handball ("One good thing about ultimate") and it still hasn't appeared on Google RSD 12 hours later.
Do you know for sure where this is breaking down? Are all posts definitely getting to USENET? Are there feeds to USENET that cost money that could speed up the posting process?
I know Google Groups has no API (Google hasn't done itself proud on Google Groups in general... it's pretty weak), but maybe there's an alternative way of getting things posted?
Thanks.
Charles
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| Re: Introducing RSD No Spam [message #47374 is a reply to message #46059] |
Sat, 05 December 2009 14:46 |
Dave
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ckerr4 wrote on Thu, 19 November 2009 07:20Dave:
I created a thread last night on the Henry handball ("One good thing about ultimate") and it still hasn't appeared on Google RSD 12 hours later.
Do you know for sure where this is breaking down? Are all posts definitely getting to USENET? Are there feeds to USENET that cost money that could speed up the posting process?
I know Google Groups has no API (Google hasn't done itself proud on Google Groups in general... it's pretty weak), but maybe there's an alternative way of getting things posted?
Thanks.
Charles
Starting to look into these problems. I'm going to be making some test posts throughout the day today.
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