Analogue-sequencer

Colin,

> I thought the new member approve might put people off who just wanted a
> casual browse through the archives.

Or give the 'casual member' a full list of email addresses.

> The graphic of a word that must be entered to join the group *should* stop
> spam-bots, but maybe they are getting smarter, or they just have some dumb
> bastard manually joining groups to spam...

Someone opens a hotmail account (as in this case), joins several dozen
groups with lots of members and sends out one mail to them all, then drops
the hotmail account.

Paul