Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

You can set it so that only new members are moderated.
Once their first post has been approved, they are no longer moderated.
That eliminates 99% of the spam, even though they keep changing their 
originating address.

erik_magrini@... wrote:

>Don't you still have to approve all their messages though?
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>"Ravi Ivan Sharma" <noision1@...>
>12/01/2003 09:00 AM
>Please respond to xl7
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>        To:     xl7@yahoogroups.com
>        cc: 
>        Subject:        Re: [xl7] eliminate spam -- make membership "approve
>only"
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>What about new members are moderated?? It works for me on 10 lists.
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: just john 
>  To: xl7@yahoogroups.com 
>  Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:36 AM
>  Subject: [xl7] eliminate spam -- make membership "approve only"
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>  When I complained about group spam a couple weeks ago, I got this 
>  from the group owner.
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>  >>John,
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>  >>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.
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>  >>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.
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>  In other yahoogroups I'm in that DO have the "approve only" option 
>  set to on, I have seen NO problems.
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>  So I wonder what the other group members think about this.  I vote 
>  for going "approve only."  Anybody else?
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