Thanks Mary, We try our best -- sometimes a dishonest member slips through the net -- we will now moderate all new member postings.
Cheers Wayne 2009/11/13 MaryZ <[email protected]> > > This is a good measure you have initiated. Thank you! We appreciate > it. When I received a message advertising a subject that was not > congruent with the group, I assumed it may be a virus that replicates > the contact list and mails all of one;s contacts. Not daring to open > the message, I came to the google group page and read your reassuring > post about this. > > Thank you for handling it so promptly. > > On Nov 12, 6:32 pm, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > Apology for the recent SPAM posts on our list -- I have deleted the > > offending posts, banned the user concerned and reported the offender > > to Google Groups. > > > > All new members of the list are required to request membership, > > stating the reasons they want to join WE. Managers of the group assess > > applications to our list in good faith. I've now added a setting that > > all posts from new members of the list are moderated ;-(. > > > > I'm not happy with moderating posts -- but due to the complaints I > > have received from members regarding the SPAM that slips through -- we > > must now moderate posts from new members. > > > > Lets see how this works. > > > > If there are volunteers on our List who can help out with moderation > > of new posts -- please let me know and I'll add you to a group of > > managers. > > > > Cheers > > Wayne > > > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
