From: albe albo <richter1956@yahoo.com>

Date: October 2, 2007 1:38:45 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

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

Why not?

Unfortunately spammers are evolving fast.

I set up some good filters for my e-mail but they

worked until yesterday.

Today i received about 30spam-mail  (lot from Canada!

LOL) Vs. 4 true e-mail.

So... "kill the spammers and restrict the group!"

Greetings 

Alberto Mayer

--- Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com> 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

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