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

From: Guy Hoyle <guy.hoyle_at_...>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:45:01 -0500


I do it that way for the YahooGroups I manage. And yes, Mythic Russia was published...
http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=ISS-MR01 , review at http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12699.phtml

Guy (Hoyle)

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Christopher Graves <chrphrgrv_at_...> wrote:
> 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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