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Re: [xl7] eliminate spam -- make membership "approve only"

2003-12-01 by Greg Waltzer

"approve only" is the way to go. (the first post is moderated)
The list owner can appoint other moderators to help in keeping approvals 
timely.

just john wrote:

>When I complained about group spam a couple weeks ago, I got this 
>from the group owner.
>
>
>  
>
>>>John,
>>>
>>>I get these already, as part of the group. Unfortunately, there's
>>>little I can do to prevent them - I could go to a 'approve only'
>>>membership, but yahoo's implementation of this can be problematic -
>>>I've got another group where people were waiting for weeks to get
>>>added.
>>>
>>>I'm not sure what we can do about this - banning spoofed accounts
>>>doesn't do much. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
>>>      
>>>
>
>
>In other yahoogroups I'm in that DO have the "approve only" option 
>set to on, I have seen NO problems.
>
>So I wonder what the other group members think about this.  I vote 
>for going "approve only."  Anybody else?
>
>
>(And have you noticed how EVERY SINGLE GROUP SPAM is for websites 
>based on MCI?)
>  
>


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