> The Yahoo groups I am responsible for don't have any spam whatsoever. I > approve all subscribers and their first posts. After one acceptable post I > change their status to unmoderated. If it's spam, the post is deleted and > the subscriber is banned. > > Leon >
Sadly, one of the tactics spammers use is to hire folks in developing countries at pennies per hour to sit in front of a computer and sign up for mailing lists, email accounts, news accounts, etc. Then they have "legitimate" access to or from which to send their spam. No real way to stop this as there are real humans doing the sign-up, not "bots" that can be defeated with technological solutions. K8QN
