On 10 Jan 2008, at 16:02, Rob Sartin wrote:
[snip]
> - approve the messages (and possibly un-moderate the new user). This
> seems just wrong to me. In every instance I've deleted messages, it
> has been a first post by a new user pointing to a heavily ad-laden
> site.
[snip]

There is a "moderate first posts" option in yahoogroups. Works well
on other lists that I'm on as a way to keep spam down.

Cheers,

Adrian