On Thursday, January 27, 2005, 9:34:09 PM, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Yahoo Groups has a "moderate new members" setting which leaves new >> members in a moderated state until the owner manually changes it. >> It's a deterrent against spam since initial posts are moderated. >> Works great. > I've been a moderator too many times, that's definitely too much work. Yeah I suppose it depends on the message activity and the number of members. None of my lists are too huge, so this is manageable. I can see how auto-unmoderation after N messages could be a timesaver. But if spammers knew number N, they could just post N legitimate looking messages, then start spamming. With a manual unmoderation, they know someone is checking their postings. As a practical matter an N of 1 seems to stop most spammers and probably prevents most from even trying in the first place, which is even better. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/
