From: Ray Byrne <ray@in4media.co.uk>
Date: October 2, 2007 12:25:34 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Possible Membership Changes to Group
Hi Milton,
I think if it's a PITA to you go right ahead. When I joined I wouldn't have minded doing a questionnaire to be honest. Your software has made my enjoyment of my hobby amazingly better and I'm sure new members will be only too happy to help you help us.
On 2 Oct 2007, at 19:10, 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
ATB
Ray Byrne
in4media | graphic and website DESIGN
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