Re: Just a Note

Hi Paul. That sounds like a good plan to me. The other option would be to restrict membership and mandate a reason for wanting into the group. One of the other groups I am in is setup that way, and the moderator will not approve someone if they don't give a good reason for wanting in.

Stephie

In a message dated 14/10/2000 00:01:36 GMT Daylight Time, <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=oc0lDBXCwfUDgpvbQBhfzh0EC78eWCW-voSyRr_r9TVeBcMxAGwn6MYGzeZH7kIOpuHy8gz78ovMPdTvhJ8Tph4R">pbowers@pipingdesign.com</a> writes:

> A while ago I modified the mailing list settings to "moderated" after a
> spam message got through.
>
> I've since changed the options so that only certain subscribers'
> messages will be individually approved (not that there's all that much
> activity here). Chances are that if you've posted here before or if
> we've communicated via private email, you are not on the moderated list.
>
> By default, all new members are now set to moderated status and will
> remain so until I see reason to change this.
>
> This seems to be the best solution to eliminate spamming while not
> discouraging more "senior" listmembers from posting.
>
> Paul
Received on Fri Oct 13 15:23:00 2000