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From: "John D'Errico" <woodchips@rochester.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: What is the model for the File Exchange?
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 21:04:01 +0000 (UTC)
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"Jos " <#10584@fileexchange.com> wrote in message <gr36li$fst$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Helen Chen" <helen.chen@mathworks.com> wrote in message <gr33oc$31u$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> 
> Here is a simple suggestion that will greatly enhance the FEX whilst allowing all kind of submissions etc.:
> 
> allow a user to filter out (!) files based on a certain tag or combination of tag and the user who applied it
> 
> Jos

My recommendation is that this, while valuable, must
be made automatic.

If I know that a certain (unspecified user) is always
uploading spam, I must have a way to easily add that
user (or tag) to an "ignore" list. A problem is that
if you do a search on the FEX for certain common
keywords, you might find 70 some pieces of spam to
sift through, plus a few truly useful submissions from
other users.

The spammers, once they can be ignored, will tend
to drift away.

John