>On 13/04/2004, at 2:11 PM, Onno Benschop wrote: > >> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 16:05, David Watkins wrote: >>> The moderating of the the first post by a subscriber appears to be >>> creating more problems than it is trying to solve and maybe it >>> would be worth turning that feature off. >>> >>> If a week or more can go by where the first postings can go by >>> before it is looked at, this only causes frustration and the result >>> of test messages being posted by people. >> >> A better solution would to share the approval load around between >> willing members. > >This is pretty much the solution that will be in place. I just need to >get the time to implement it securely.
Well as a stop-gap measure, why not just send a 'welcome' email to new users informing them that their first post may be delayed because it must be moderated? That should fix most of the issues with people getting confused... without letting the SPAMmers win. Ryan
