Ouch Marcus ( sorry prefers to read more than participates )
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Mike Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well, in the source address (in the header) is > Dave E Stephens Sr <[email protected]> > and he's been a group member since april > of 2008. > > I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt > and not ban him, but in case someone's hacked > his password he's now on moderation, > > BTW, I know you folks (now over 4800 as of > yesterday) probably don't realize it, but this group > is set up to place every new member on automatic > moderation. It takes deliberate action by a > moderator to change that status to unmoderated. > > The new user doesn't get to "regular" status > until we (the moderators) see just what kind of stuff > they post. If I see a ham callsign it's 1 or 2, if not, more. > > And just to give you all an idea of the c...@p you don't > see, in the last 5 days alone I've rejected 5 messages > (i.e. spam) and banned 4 email addresses (spammers). > These days for every 10 new legit members we ban 1 or 2. > At the moment there are almost 300 that have been > banned. One gentleman has been banned at email > addresses belonging to three different ISPs. > > Mike WA6ILQ > > > At 05:06 PM 08/10/10, you wrote: > > > Who knows? When I see someone spamming a bunch of Yahoo groups, it can't be > good, and I definitely won't click on a link in the message. > > > Richard, N7TGB > www.n7tgb.net > The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's > money > --Margaret Thatcher > > > >
