RE: Yahoo group problem

Make it member only post. NO group should allow a person not a member to
post EVER IMHO, period.
This it the ONLY way to substantially reduce spam. The next step is
moderation but that should not be needed.

I am really surprised at this, I am on 30 groups in Yahoo and as far as I
know this would be the only one to allow a non member to post. If a person
is interested enough to post they must take the simple step of joining, it
only takes seconds.

If you want to be really nasty, and I don't ask for this, you could refuse
to validate members until they return an email that you send them, thus
confirming identity.





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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Panico [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:00 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [pixory-beta] Yahoo group problem
> 
> Folks,
> 
> The spam reaching this Yahoo group (which I moderate away) 
> has been steadily growing over the last 6 months to the point 
> where it is starting to annoy me. I'm tired of deleting 
> stupid spam messages every day.
> 
> I see two possibilities going forward:
> 
> 1) I can change the status of the group to allow only members to post.
> It's nicest to allow open posting because it's quicker for 
> posters who  only have one-time questions and don't want to 
> join group.
> 
> 2) Someone else can take over as moderator.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> regards,
> 
> joe
> 
> 
> 
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