Hi!
I sympathize with your concern. I'm no fan of blatant, obnoxious, and
inconsiderate spammers either!:-(
However, I don't know how one would decide on who may or may not be a
spammer on a pending member list.
The only thing that might be done is prevent automated spammers from
joining. This could simply be done with some kind of test: Ref:
The Carnegie Mellon project, a Completely Automated Public Test to
tell Humans and Computers Apart (CAPTCHA).
I'm sure you've seen this, it's those "Please enter the characters
shown" displays that have alphnumeric characters, possibly distorted,
for you to duplicate. The idea being that "bots" cannot read, at
least, not comprehensively!;)
But this would need ideally to be implemented by Yahoo! (perhaps as an
option) and would be difficult for a group owner to employ.
Response mail is another alternative, but this is easily foiled by
wouldbe spammers.
Any delayed solution (i.e., one that could be implemented by a group
owner) would also have the effect of discouraging membership. Not a
generally good idea. Some people object even to the simple requirement
now imposed of having to sign in and register with Yahoo!.
Additionally, requiring approval means Julian (or some delegate) would
have to review each request!
That's a lot to ask of someone who's
already pretty busy!;) And to really be effective, you'd have to
require approval of posts. Now that would really geometrically
progress the workload!;)
Bottom line, imho, is just grin and bear it! Julian weeds them out as
they appear!
Sincerely,
A kindred spirit with no effective, practical solution,
Dave S.
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> Julian,
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> I wonder if it's too much to set the Yahoo! Group to require
approval to
> join...
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> ~Michael
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