Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Don't banish me! I own a Musicaid Claptrap and Silicon Mallet! I'm still cool.
I've had bouncing issues w/ Yahoo for whatever reason but I get group mail whenever there's chatter.


Greg


-----Original Message-----
From: jesper jesper@... [Simmons_Drums] <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
To: Simmons_Drums <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Nov 20, 2014 6:31 pm
Subject: [Simmons Drums] views on spam, non-active members etc - feedback please

                                                     Hi list members - it's moderator hour! :)
 
 I try to keep a good eye on this list. 99% of the communications flows 
 smoothly. The message below was a phishing attempt and I guess Darren's 
 account was hacked. He became a member in 2005 and hasn't been active in 
 recent times. I have thrown him out and deleted the message.
 
 Most similar attempts are blocked effectively by the rule of moderation. 
 New members are moderated and I try to remove the moderation of active 
 members after a few months (the new system at Yahoogroups needs to be 
 managed manually) when they've proved they/you know their/your hexagons 
 and are here for the discussion and community.
 
 Anyway, I'd like to throw a few questions in your direction:
 
 1. Do we need to "clean up" the member list? There are MANY members not 
 receiving any mails, they're just members (including our list owner 
 Scott btw). The list would be easier to manage and I prefer a list with 
 active members instead of a list with hundreds of inactive members (we 
 are today 733 members and sorted by joining date I'm number 8, back in 
 2002). Circa 60-70% never even receive our mails.
 2. Sometimes we see apologizes from new members when their first post is 
 an ad. Is this a problem? (I've let them pass this far, but would like 
 your views on this.)
 3. There have been a very friendly mood on the list in recent times. 
 This is good news. Some of you may remember this hasn't always been the 
 case. (I and a few others took a lot of onlist and offlist beating last 
 time.) Am I doing an OK job here?
 4. Adding pictures and similar on the website is fairly unmoderated. In 
 your opinion, does this work well? (or did I start something bad now by 
 pointing this out?!)
 
 Let me know your views and feel free to come with honest feedback, 
 whine, praise, whatever...
 
 Hexagonically yours, jesper
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