The fact that one spam is 50% of the postings does not make it more
than one spam. I've looked over the posts to see if there is some
real issue here there isn't. You are always going to have some spam,
some off topic posting, and the occasional rude person. People new
to net culture often get very upset about rule breakers. Most of us
give it up as an impossible task, and find betterway to spend our energy.

If people really feel the need to fix this
Delaying messages is a bad solution. Someone might need help now
Requiring some form of registraion to participate is a better answer

Tom

--- In linux-society@yahoogroups.com, Francis Gulotta <reconbot@m...>
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> The hoops to join are the same for every group and spammers have the
> method down pat, we've already had around 4-5 spammers join. I don't
> mind doing message approval (I'm a moderator) for the time being, I
> don't think the extra half a day that a message would wait will mater
> much at this point in time. When we get busy again then it won't be
> worth it and we'll switch it back. But then one spam won't be 50% of the
> messages that month.
>
> - -Francis
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> Keith Brown wrote:
> | John,
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> | Rather than turn the group into fully moderated, how about screening
> | membership? That is, set up the archives so anyone can read them, but
> | those who want to post must join, and the join is screened. That way,
> | should someone have enough energy to jump through the hoops to become
> | member, then they're likely to become a contribution (or at least not
> | mess in our nest). And, of course, if they do mess in the nest, they
> | can be removed with relative ease.
> |
> | -Keith
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> | Yahoo! Groups Links
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