From: Phil Houston <pkh111@knology.net>

Date: October 2, 2007 1:27:41 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Possible Membership Changes to Group

Death to spammers.  There are way too many of them in this world and they all seem to know my email addresses.

Restrict membership

Phil

On Oct 2, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Milton Aupperle 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