Elektron Musical Instruments

Strange, I get individual email notification of any moderated messages which tells me that it is coming from someone who is new and hence moderated. If I am lazy, I can just respond to the message and it lets the message go through (but it doesn't de-moderate the user (I have emailed yahoo about this since such would be a GREAT feature for us moderators-- allowing a quick re email to both let the message in and de-moderate the sender somehow). Anyway, cheers!


 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joe 
  To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [elektron] Is it possible to stop all the spammers?


  i used to moderate all new members until they made a legit post;
  exactly as you described below. however, yahoo would never notify me
  that there were pending messages (and hence, members) to approve. so
  unless i looked for it (which i didn't, because posts are delivered to
  my email box), i didn't see the pending messages and didn't approve
  new members. at the time, spam wasn't a problem so i set the group to
  allow any new members. obviously this isn't working right now.

  i've added another moderator (scott aka glaive, whom most of you might
  know from handling www.elektron-users.com) and i've set both his and
  my options to moderate all incoming members.

  hope that helps!

  --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Ivan Sharma"
  <sharmalaw1@...> wrote:
  >
  > I moderate about 20 or so gear related yahoogroups. I set the
  settings to moderate all new members. Once I see a message that is not
  spam I approve the message and change their status. It is not as time
  consuming as approving all members when they join. Often, folks join
  and don't post for months. But the first time they do, yes I have to
  go through a minor hassle. Sometimes their posts have to wait a few
  days until I can get to it, but after that it is smooth sailing and
  the groups are spam free. Perhaps you may make a few other trusted
  folks moderators and do it that way. If you can't do what needs to be
  done all by yourself, share and delegate.



   

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