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membership approval and all that jazz

membership approval and all that jazz

2003-12-11 by dharma_bummer

Hi, this is your humble moderator.  I'm afraid when I changed the
group to require my approval of all new members (to stop the
spamming), I forgot to set it up so that it would email me
notification of new members, and hence, the pending members piled up
like so much firewood!  I just approved the whole bunch, so "welcome
abord" to many of them.  Of course, this means we may receive some
spam in the upcoming days, but I promise to delete those messages and
ban those responsible, and in the future I will receive the
notifications that allow me to approve new members in a timely manner.

BaM

Re: [vintagesynthrepair] membership approval and all that jazz

2003-12-15 by Bill Fox

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From: "dharma_bummer" <bmarek@...>
> Hi, this is your humble moderator.  I'm afraid when I changed the
> group to require my approval of all new members (to stop the
> spamming), I forgot to set it up so that it would email me
> notification of new members, and hence, the pending members piled up
> like so much firewood!

On the groups I own, I allow anybody to join but they're all set to Moderated
status so that they can't post spam.  If their first post is spam, I delete the
message and remove the offender.  If the first message is on-topic, I approve
the the message and change the new member's status to unmoderated.  Viola!
Spam-free list!  I have my options set to notify me when members join or leave
the group as a reminder to check for their initial (moderated) post.  Just
another way of doing things.

Cheers,

Bill

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