06-02-2008, 04:50 AM
[quote Black Landlord]I am in non-agreement with you Steph.
I own or manage about 40 Yahoogroups (and a few mailman lists and a few university-hosted lists, memberships up to 500+) and for me the only way to go is to approve new members, via e-mail alert (you just hit reply/send); you can almost always tell a potential spammer on sight, usually by the domain. If you received a moderation message for all the new members' posts, how would that be less work?
Non-agreement...dunno if I can handle that!
It is less work because, as I pointed out in my original post, not all members end up posting. Most members (on every list I own/moderate) are lurkers.
Also, your method for judging by domain name doesn't catch all spammers. So, unless you have to approve all new members AND moderate all new members' posts, you'll have spammers get through.
It's very rare that someone who starts out posting legitimately will suddenly turn into a spammer.
Also, I've noticed that a lot of the spammers will just "try" to post once and then go away on their own (no action needed other than to ignore/deny the initial post attempt).
On the flip side, I have seen lists that required membership approval where spammers did get through (because the initial posts weren't moderated).
I own or manage about 40 Yahoogroups (and a few mailman lists and a few university-hosted lists, memberships up to 500+) and for me the only way to go is to approve new members, via e-mail alert (you just hit reply/send); you can almost always tell a potential spammer on sight, usually by the domain. If you received a moderation message for all the new members' posts, how would that be less work?
Non-agreement...dunno if I can handle that!
It is less work because, as I pointed out in my original post, not all members end up posting. Most members (on every list I own/moderate) are lurkers.
Also, your method for judging by domain name doesn't catch all spammers. So, unless you have to approve all new members AND moderate all new members' posts, you'll have spammers get through.
It's very rare that someone who starts out posting legitimately will suddenly turn into a spammer.
Also, I've noticed that a lot of the spammers will just "try" to post once and then go away on their own (no action needed other than to ignore/deny the initial post attempt).
On the flip side, I have seen lists that required membership approval where spammers did get through (because the initial posts weren't moderated).