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eliminate spam -- make membership "approve only"

2003-12-01 by just john

When I complained about group spam a couple weeks ago, I got this 
from the group owner.


>>John,
>>
>>I get these already, as part of the group. Unfortunately, there's
>>little I can do to prevent them - I could go to a 'approve only'
>>membership, but yahoo's implementation of this can be problematic -
>>I've got another group where people were waiting for weeks to get
>>added.
>>
>>I'm not sure what we can do about this - banning spoofed accounts
>>doesn't do much. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.


In other yahoogroups I'm in that DO have the "approve only" option 
set to on, I have seen NO problems.

So I wonder what the other group members think about this.  I vote 
for going "approve only."  Anybody else?


(And have you noticed how EVERY SINGLE GROUP SPAM is for websites 
based on MCI?)
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