From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: October 2, 2007 12:53:13 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Possible Membership Changes to Group

Hi Milton:

I'm a member of a number of yahoo groups that require approval.  Some

of these can take a day or two to process, but filling out the form

takes very little time.

I have absolutely no problem with that requirement.  It's a very small

price to pay for the privilege of communicating with fellow

enthusiasts without annoying diversions from spammers.

-Tim.

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Milton Aupperle" <milton@...> wrote:

Hi Folks;

I'm getting tired of some of the spammers that join this group and

then post spam messages. Sometimes it's obvious what they intend on

doing and I remove and ban them as soon as I am notified of their

joining. But it's turning into a PITA to do this and sometimes they

beat me to the punch, which happened twice this week.

So I am  considering changing the membership of this group from Open

(i.e. anyone can join) to Restricted (i.e. I approve all requests for

membership). If i change to restricted, new people have to send me an

e-mail before they can join and explain why they want to join the

group, then I approve them.

Before I do this, I'd like feedback from people on this group on

whether they feel this is a bad idea or not. I'd rather not restrict

access, but I really hate spam show up and having to deal with it

myself.

Thanks in advance for any feed back or thoughts on this matter..

Milton Aupperle