Re: About Moderation of --- Special Notice ---

From: Christopher Graves <chrphrgrv_at_...>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:57:32 -0600

Yes, absolutely. I've even had to do that for my own pbem groups. It's constant.

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:47 PM, <HeroQuest-rules-owner_at_yahoogroups.com>wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> This is a Special Notice from Henk Langeveld,
> owner/moderator of the HeroQuest-Rules group.
>
> This must be the first 'Special Notice' to
> this group in years. The reason for this
> is that as of late, there appear to
> be weeks when I'm seeing more new
> subscribers than new messages.
>
> My suspicion is that most of those new
> subscribers are actually botnet accounts
> used to spam the list and/or links/file area.
> (Or harvest mail addresses)
>
> So what do you guys (and gals) think?
>
> Should we close the list for automated
> subscription, and approve new members
> manually? Traffic is not that heavy
> that people would be missing massive
> amounts of updates,...
>
> Cheers,
> Henk
>
>
>

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