Elektron Musical Instruments

i used to moderate all new members until they made a legit post;
exactly as you described below.  however, yahoo would never notify me
that there were pending messages (and hence, members) to approve.  so
unless i looked for it (which i didn't, because posts are delivered to
my email box), i didn't see the pending messages and didn't approve
new members.  at the time, spam wasn't a problem so i set the group to
allow any new members.  obviously this isn't working right now.

i've added another moderator (scott aka glaive, whom most of you might
know from handling www.elektron-users.com) and i've set both his and
my options to moderate all incoming members.

hope that helps!


--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Ivan Sharma"
<sharmalaw1@...> wrote:
>
> I moderate about 20 or so gear related yahoogroups. I set the
settings to moderate all new members. Once I see a message that is not
spam I approve the message and change their status. It is not as time
consuming as approving all members when they join. Often, folks join
and don't post for months. But the first time they do, yes I have to
go through a minor hassle. Sometimes their posts have to wait a few
days until I can get to it, but after that it is smooth sailing and
the groups are spam free. Perhaps you may make a few other trusted
folks moderators and do it that way. If you can't do what needs to be
done all by yourself, share and delegate.