Glen Daniels wrote: > Hi Sanjiva: > > Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: >> I sent a subscription request .. but apparently membership is not >> open but has to be approved by the moderator. Surprising in this day >> and age IMO but anyway I hope I'll be allowed in. > > Just a quick comment - this shouldn't be surprising at all, esp. in > this day and age. :) I moderate the soapbuilders Yahoo group, and I > can tell you from experience that if you leave subscription open > nowadays, you will get hundreds of automated spammer "members" whose > only purpose is to send spam to the group (many groups are configured > for member-only postings), and clutter the "links" and "files" > sections with porn or advertisements. :( unfortunately it is very much true for stax_builders (as i am moderator i can see some of it still even after yahoo filters most of spam) moreover when membership request comes to me that has no comment i do not approve because you can not know if this is really somebody interested in stax or just more sophisticated spam bot - dark side of "flat world" :-(
best, alek > Moderation is also useful if you have any kind of licensing/IP issues > for groups that are creating IP. > > --Glen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- The best way to predict the future is to invent it - Alan Kay --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
