[Seattle-editorial] Fwd: Re: possible best practice of yours

[anarch3m]

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DATE: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 04:58:29
From: "Ilias" <ilias at anti2004.net>
To: anarch3m at lycos.com

Walt hi!

This is how we deal with fascists (or spammers) in Athens:

When someone from the editorial collective sees a fascist post or 
comment, he/she hides it and sends an "emergency" mail to the editorial 
mailing list , alerting everybody that we have a possible attack by 
fascists. Usually they continue to post for about 1-2 hours, but the 
trick is to hide their posts immediately. Having 2-3 people on alert 
(or sometimes just only one) checking every new comment-post that comes 
in, that can be very easy. This immediate response has a phycological 
effect on the spammer, that sees everything he/she sends disappearing 
in a matter of seconds.
 
The bottom line: i think the key to repelling spam attacks is to be 
quick and very desicive, and not taking second thoughts on hiding 
fascist crap or spam. To achieve that there has to be a constant 
observation of the neswire, sometimes comment by comment, and that 
requires that a lot of people are involved in that task.

Until now, we haven't organized this more formally, since almost all of 
the time somebody is online and checking the newswire. However, as the 
flow of info is growing all the time, breaking up this observation 
into "shifts" would be a good idea.

This is an approach that requires a considerable amount of time and 
energy, but i think it is essential if you want to keep a truly open-
publishing newswire.

I hope this was of some help :-)

Ilias from IMC-Athens  
> you wrote to commworks as intro: "We also get recent spam attacks by 
fascists, but have been very succesful in repelling them."
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> please take some time to share this.  We at global wire , as well as 
the local collectives would be most receptive ears.
> 
> walt
> seattle
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