> John VE5MU wrote: 
> My easy solution is to put them, one by one , on the blocked 
> sender list, which moves their messages directly to the trash 
> bin. This gets rid of most of the QRM.  ....
> Andy, if you had any gumption, you would punt this noise off 
> here and over to where all the arguments belong.


Hi John,

Like you, I've been so much happier participating in the Digitalradio
group since I put a few senders in my "trash bin" filter! The only way
I ever see them is if someone else responds to them and resends their
post. In that case, I sometimes have to block the subject line. But
alas, if you read it on the web portal, you can only filter it by not
clicking on messages sent by the individual.

I continue to participate in Digitalradio because it is one of the few
places to communicate live with a large community of operators on the
forefront of digital ham radio.

As for kicking the noise out... once a group of more than 1000 members
gets out of control, it can be difficult for the moderator to re-gain
control. Fortunately, Yahoo has provided some surgical tools for the
moderators:
1. banning an individual
2. full-moderating an individual 

The best solution is full-moderating them. But full-moderation is a
big commitment in moderator time. Every message the moderated
individual sends must be screened by a moderator before it is allowed
to be posted to the group. 

The entire group can also be put on moderation.... With more than 2000
members, and a message load of 100 messages per week or more, that
usually requires several enthusiastic 24/7 volunteer moderators and
some good ground rules for them to function. There are very few
fully-moderated large ham radio groups.

Bonnie KQ6XA






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