From: "centurion40tim" <urgent40@cybertrails.com>
Date: October 2, 2007 9:22:00 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Possible Membership Changes to Group
Fine by me. Anything to confound those sub-human spammers
--- 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