"Drupal Groups Global Training Days" has been flooded by SPAM.
While there's an effort to identify and block users posting them, subscribers are getting a lot of emails with SPAM anyway.
Since this might probably being done by humans, making recaptcha useless, I think it might be better to require approval before posting.

If we don't take action, people with interest on the groups, will unsubscribe not be bothered.

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Title: Force approval by moderators on groups with lots os SPAM » Force approval by moderators on groups with lots of SPAM
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Or at least force approval of messages for users whose accounts are less than, for example, 30 days old.

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I am manually cleaning this spam up as best as possible (don't have privileges to delete the posts) and I have deleted the abusers from the group. This will not be of much help for very long but at least it will remove clutter.

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How about a "report" link on groups.drupal.org? Is there any known plans on this?

The SPAM coming from some groups is a serious pain in my mailbox.

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I've set the GTD group to moderated and left comment at https://groups.drupal.org/node/515372#comment-1152348. I'm not closing this issue since the title refers to more than just this one group.

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Version: 7.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-1.x-dev
Component: Content Moderation » User account
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The only development done on groups.drupal.org is to replace it. The plan seems to migrate it into drupal.org, as described in #2590497: [meta] Proposal to migrate groups into Drupal.org.