On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Paul <pper...@gmail.com> wrote: > The offending thread containing the spam (entitled "[no subject]") is > still there. This gives the appearance that the main purpose of Group > Managers is to spew scolding flames at well-intentioned members, > rather than doing useful things like removing spam.
Oh noes, it's also still present in all the mirrored archives as well (e.g. http://www.mail-archive.com/g3-5-list@googlegroups.com/msg15332.html), whatever will we do?! Realistically with such a method of communication like this, there is no way to delete a message once it has been sent because even if you can delete it from the main archive it'll still have been sent to all email subscribers and it'll appear in any mirroring archives regardless. The only way you can really control this is on a per person basis, and that means deleting the emails you don't want, creating filters for constant nuisances, and ultimately unsubscribing if the majority of the list postings are not useful to you. So really, although the nannies are doing their best to keep things under control (and they're doing a pretty good job at doing so) they can truly only do preventative measures--there is very little that can be done after the fact but they can do preventative maintenance after the fact to help prevent a recurrence both from the offending poster and from other posters as well which is what they've been doing by posting FAQs and warnings publicly to the list. I don't really think there's much more that can be done... -- Best Regards, John Musbach -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
