Thanks for all the suggestions, and the general consensus to kill this list and to revive the Yahoo one with the same name, that was temporarily put on hold.
I manage, among others, also the soft_radio list on Yahoo with more than 1500 members, and that list has *zero* spam (so far...). The technique is what others have described. Firstly I need that each applicant writes me an introductory message, possibly with his call sign. Depending on the contents of that message, I decide, case by case, whether to put that member on moderation or not. If somebody writes me that he has built a Tayloe mixer and he would like to use my software with it, it is quite unlikely that he is a spammer... spammers haven't the faintest idea about what a Tayloe mixer is...but, as it happened, if somebody writes just "please accept my subscription", well, that is quite suspicious.... I accept the subscription, but he is immediately put on moderation... which will be relieved only when/if he will have posted a couple of messages perfectly on topic with the purposes of the group. BTW, the guy who wrote that "please accept my subscription" introduction, after a couple of days did send a stream of spam messages, which were first sent to me for approval, and immediately deleted. Of course the originator was banned from the group without further notice I have now the complete list of subscribers to this Mailman-managed group. I will assume that you all are in good faith and non spammers :-), so I will subscribe you all to the Yahoo group as non moderated members. You should receive an introductory message from the Yahoo server. You will have then the possibility to modify the terms of your subscription, i.e. single message, daily digest, HTML or plain text, etc. If you don't like to be subscribed to a Yahoo group, you have of course the chance to leave it. New subscriptions to _this_ group won't be anymore accepted, and probably it will be deleted, after having saved the archives. See you on Yahoo 73 Alberto I2PHD _______________________________________________ Winrad mailing list [email protected] http://winrad.org/mailman/listinfo/winrad_winrad.org
