Hi Jaap,

the question would then be if we could move again, maybe to a smaller
provider not actively known by the spam community, I know, kind of
hide and seek game :-)




To: chipdir-l@yahoogroups.com
From: Jaap van Ganswijk <ganswijk@...>
Date sent: Wed, 14 May 2008 04:38:26 +0200
Subject: Re: Mod-problem: Time to turn out the lights and put up the
closed sign on ChipDir group?
Send reply to: chipdir-l@yahoogroups.com

> Hi Jan,
>
> At 2008-05-13 13:05, Jan Wuesten wrote:
> >there are some more groups at yahoo not having this problem, they
> >simply set preferences to
> >
> >"members may post only"
>
> I think this setting should be the default
> for all mailing lists!
>
> >"new member acceptance only after review"
>
> I was hoping that this setting would not be
> necessary because it's beginner unfriendly and
> costs me time...
>
> >No spam at all on those
>
> I think that Yahoogroups should be able to detect
> spam using site-wide sophisticated methods. Even
> a non very sophisticated method like not allowing
> a new group member to send more than say three
> messages to a mailing list or subscribing to
> several mailing lists and sending more than a
> total of three messages in total should be easy
> to implement.
>
> Some forum systems do allow people to subscribe
> freely, but will send the first message of the
> new subscriber to the list manager for review.
>
> I have the feeling that Yahoo isn't developing
> Yahoogroups very actively anymore.
>
> Greetings,
> Jaap
>
>


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