Hello groups, I am your group owner and moderator and I have a special request to make. Please excuse my offtopic.
My longevity has been reduced from two years to three months so I would like to be reduce myself from owner status to moderator only status. I am happy to remain a moderator however I don't want this group to be lost in the event that I can no longer be an owner. I am asking for potential group owners to come forward. The functions I preform are as follows - These groups need approval for new members. Most members are approved but some are not for reasons below. New members posts are moderated until they demonstrate that group policies are followed. This eliminates most SPAM. On occasions that members do not follow the group policies, they are returned to moderated status. OK - that's the basic stuff - now the harder stuff. Some on the internet are hungry for fresh content that they can use to created advertising dollars and yahoo groups are targeted for this reason. These people broadcast content from various sources including yahoo groups and in this process they sometimes display private members e-mail addresses in the text of quoted and previous e-mails. This is a big issue that takes quite some time investment to resolve. Most recently see - http://php-discussion.blogspot.com/ http://belajar-php.blogspot.com/ http://php-source-code.blogspot.com/ These are all sites that I have had removed because they were using a subscribed e-mail address to steal content. This is not an issue that is specific to my groups. In fact it is a common issue for yahoo groups and perhaps others as well. Because blogspot is owned by google, I use google alerts to detect these as the google bot spiders these sites before other spiders detect them. I have also written many scripts that run on my personal servers that have the dedicated purpose of detecting these abuses of group members e-mail addresses. This is a dynamic situation - as I have learnt over the years - there is no ultimate solution. You have to keep ahead of the pack. If you think you have the dynamic skills to deal with the changing methods used by content thieves than please let me know. My retirement from owner status forthcoming. EGO will not get anyone any extra points - I want to see demonstrated skills. Your current group owner, Robert Martin.
