Thanks for the many replies and opinions. Since nobody spoke out against moderating new members and other groups seem to have been forced to do the same, I assume that it's OK with the majority on the list. Moderation of new member's first emails is now enabled. Hopefully spam will drop back to nothing :-)
Cheers, Tim ^,^ On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Vicky Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Sean is in charge of the list, he'll be able to tweak the settings for the > mailing list. > /// Vicky > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~ > ~~ http://www.python.ie ~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Patrick Dempster <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> >> On the BLUG group we've found it works quite well and provided there >> are a couple of people moderating its not a huge deal for those doing >> the actual moderating. >> >> Talk to you soon, >> Take care, >> Paddy >> >> If it happens once, it's a bug. >> If it happens twice, it's a feature. >> If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy. >> >> >> >> 2009/9/25 Diarmuid Bourke <[email protected]>: >> > >> > Aye, it seems the sanctuary of google groups has been breached by more >> > spammers. I'm for moderation if its easy to do. However, they are >> > rather amusing... >> > >> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Tim Kersten <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> >> >> With 13 banned automated "spam" members in the last 7 days, it seems we >> have >> >> a new trend. Perhaps it's time to moderate the first one or two posts >> from >> >> new members after all. >> >> >> >> What do you think? Anyone strongly agree or disagree? >> >> >> >> Tim ^,^ >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Diarmuid Bourke >> > [email protected] >> > [email protected] >> > >> > > >> > >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.ie/group/pythonireland?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
