Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi Team

Well done on setting up the moderator.

Those of us that are also members of the Yahoo DTX group, which has 
member only access, will have noticed that it too has been getting 
spam. 

I have not tested it but can you email a group without being a 
registered member on the Yahoo boards or does it bounce?

I originally found this group based on a Google search that found a 
posting that answered my question. If we restrict the access will that 
stop Google indexing the content?

I wish there was some way of adding a counter to the group to count 
the number of casual readers (see next post for Poll results). Vern - 
any ideas how this could be engineered?

Roger

PS I would be happy to help the moderators if I can.

ozteevan said:
>Vern - any ideas how this could be engineered?

Actually I don't know much at all about moderating a Yahoo group, I've
never moderated one b4. I do know how this could be accomplished with
DTXpressions.com and PHPBB though.. :) I'll look through the options and
see what I can see.

Vern

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--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "ozteevan" <ozteevan@y...> wrote:
> Those of us that are also members of the Yahoo DTX group, which has 
> member only access, will have noticed that it too has been getting 
> spam. 

Roger,

Walt, your owner, seems to be on an extended leave of absence, and a 
lot of us miss him. I don't remember whether he appointed a moderator 
or not. It seems not, because the spam is resting comfortably on your 
site. 
 
> I have not tested it but can you email a group without being a 
> registered member on the Yahoo boards or does it bounce?

I don't think that you can email w/o being a member. Vern?
 
> I originally found this group based on a Google search that found a 
> posting that answered my question. If we restrict the access will 
that 
> stop Google indexing the content?

My guess is yes. They'd only be able to index the site. Vern?
 
> I wish there was some way of adding a counter to the group to count 
> the number of casual readers (see next post for Poll results). 
Vern - 
> any ideas how this could be engineered?

Again, I'd guess that would have to be a Yahoo thing.

> PS I would be happy to help the moderators if I can.

Appreciated. We're open to any and all suggestions. By the way, 
thanks for trying to locate Thackson.

Ed

> ozteevan said:
> >Vern - any ideas how this could be engineered?

Hi Vern
Can you check out adding a counter to some HTML on the Home page? 

Is it possible to post HTML format emails to the board? Hmm - if you 
can then you could add a counter to that.

I am sure that Yahoo keep great stats for their own records but they 
would never make them available - except to advertisers!

Roger

liberatusvirus said:
>> I have not tested it but can you email a group without being a
>> registered member on the Yahoo boards or does it bounce?
>
> I don't think that you can email w/o being a member. Vern?

AFAIK, you can *read* a members only group, but you can't post.

>> I originally found this group based on a Google search that found a
>> posting that answered my question. If we restrict the access will
> that
>> stop Google indexing the content?
>
> My guess is yes. They'd only be able to index the site. Vern?

AS above, I think reading w/o a membership is still ok so that shouldn't
restrict google/yahoo spiders. Also, I would imagine it woulld be pretty
weird for yahoo to block their own spiders. :)
>
>> I wish there was some way of adding a counter to the group to count
>> the number of casual readers (see next post for Poll results).
> Vern - any ideas how this could be engineered?

I sent a code snippet to roger... lets see if it works! :)

Vern

-- 
Vern Graner CNE/CNA/SSE     | "If the network is down, then you're
Senior Systems Engineer     | obviously incompetent so why are we
Texas Information Services  | paying you? Of course, if the network
vern@... www.txis.com  | is up, then we obviously don't need
Cell 507-7851 Desk 328-8947 | you, so why are we paying you?" VLG