On Thursday, January 27, 2005, 8:50:25 PM, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Then again, I belong to a fairly esoteric list that requires a conversation >> with the moderator in able to even be able to join the list. Part of the >> conversation is stating that you Will Not Spam. >> >> About one in 5 new members is a spammer, and gets deleted from the list >> after their first post (or first 3 simultaneous posts) all of which are >> spam. > Wow, sounds like Yahoo! needs a moderator option to "moderate first N > messages" from new posters where N can be set at will by the moderator > (so spammers don't know how long to pose before spamming). > I'm patenting the idea now... > Daniel Yahoo Groups has a "moderate new members" setting which leaves new members in a moderated state until the owner manually changes it. It's a deterrent against spam since initial posts are moderated. Works great. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/
