[HP4GU-California] Re: List spam re: Looking for an Attorney? Keep this in your favorites..

[Cindy]

What we do on another list I am a moderator on is that
only members can post, and all new members are
moderated until such a time they prove that they are
not there to spam us.  It seems to work fairly well.

Cindy J

--- The Eighth Weasley <eighthweasley at ...>
wrote:

> Is there any way to set it so that only group
> members can post? And
> then moderate the membership? We're not so large a
> group that
> moderating membership would be difficult, are we?
> 
> Eighth
> who is unfamiliar with how Y!groups works
> 
> On 8/7/05, aaoconnor2002 <aaoconnor2002 at ...>
> wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > I'm a moderator on this group and I know that spam
> is really annoying 
> > at best and downright offensive at worst.  I check
> the group at least 
> > once a day and delete posts like this (and ban the
> sender) as soon as 
> > they appear.
> > 
> > The only way I know to prevent these from coming
> through at all would 
> > be to switch the group over so that all posts had
> to go through an 
> > approval process before they actually hit the
> group.  I am reluctant 
> > to recommend that to the group owner because our
> incidence of spam is 
> > really low.  I think this is only the 4th post in
> 2 years.
> > 
> > If anybody knows another way around it I would be
> happy to hear about 
> > it.  
> > 
> > Thanks for your patience,
> > 
> > Audrey
> > 
> > --- In HP4GU-California at yahoogroups.com, The
> Eighth Weasley 
> > <eighthweasley at g...> wrote:
> > > Is there any way we can keep spam like this out
> of the list?
> > > 
> > > Eighth
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
> >  
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  
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> 


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