Mike - Your efforts and enforcement are greatly appreciated! It keeps the list clean and spammer free.
Thank you, for all you do! Its easily a thankless job and its tough! I know - I've been there myself! :-) John Hymes La Rue Communications 10 S. Aurora Street Stockton, CA 95202 http://tinyurl.com/2dtngmn ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Morris To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:45 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] (unknown) Well, in the source address (in the header) is Dave E Stephens Sr <kf6...@yahoo.com> 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
