Analogue-sequencer

--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, cikira@c... wrote:
> 
> 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"
>   Come join us! Info. at: www.synthsights.net
> 
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