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Marking topics with a link as the subject as spam

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1divinenanny
Dec 19, 2018, 5:17 am

It seems to me that any new topic, by a new user, that has a link as the subject (as in, http://...), is very likely to be spam. Is this taken into account in the spam-filter? Could it be, if not? I've seen quite a few these past few days...

2MarthaJeanne
Aug 3, 2019, 10:41 am

No, the filter ignores them. I would add phone numbers to the obvious spam that members should not have to flag.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/302391

For a short while we hoped that this would be addressed.

3divinenanny
Aug 3, 2019, 2:13 pm

>2 MarthaJeanne: (Pssst, that linked topic is also "my" topic ;))

4MarthaJeanne
Aug 3, 2019, 4:46 pm

>3 divinenanny: Sorry. I thought we had someone else really bothered by this. Seems to me I've ignored a lot of these recently.

5divinenanny
Aug 4, 2019, 6:08 am

>4 MarthaJeanne: No worries, seems that just you and I are really bothered by this...

6MarthaJeanne
Aug 9, 2019, 6:16 am

Also not sure why the filter isn't catching 5 topics in less than 10 minutes from a new member where all the subject lines include Blockchain and eCommerce.

7MarthaJeanne
Nov 29, 2019, 4:00 am

http://www.librarything.com/topic/313423

Still happening. I'm still ignoring.