Analogue-sequencer

Colin,

One thing you can you to help members avoid spam is to advise them to create 
a Yahoo account (this is just a member profile, not an email account unless 
one is wanted) from which to join groups.

When this is done, you don't have to provide *any* public information. Yahoo 
keeps your real email address, and that's it.

Thereupon you go can to a page of options and deselect all the spammy stuff 
in the world that they would like to send you. It's very satisfying!

If they subscribe and unsubscribe via email, yes, they will get spam because 
they haven't done this step, and they're automatically opted-in to ad mail. 
Few people use direct email commands because they like the convenience of 
switching email options at Yahoo.

Yahoo could certainly be better at explaining to people how the system works. 
Overwriting the automatic welcome message that goes out with your own is a 
good opportunity to remind folks to check their options for receiving ad mail, 
as is using the group description.

I've found that it's more fun to moderate by approving new members than to 
read and moderate first-mails. New members these days have to write a sentence 
proving that they're not a spambot. You'll know a little about them and hear 
all sorts of glowing remarks about P3 that way!
 

--Amanda
  SynthSights! "it's not about the gear"
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