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And Rosta scripsit: > 1. I've made the archives public, not restricted to members. (I hadn't > known they weren't public.) +1. Public archives contribute to the public stock of harmless pleasure. > 2. I've changes the settings so that anybody can join, without getting > approved by me. I'd originally made owner-approval of members a > requirement to combat spam, so I'm relying on whatever captcha and > antispam measures Yahoo operates. If we start to get spam again, > I'll change this setting back again. -1. Y!G spam-catching is terrible, so much so that I've migrated all my Y!G lists to Google Groups. Over there, I set them to allow anyone to sign up, but all messages are moderated -- then when a non-spam message comes through I change the author's settings to "don't moderate further messages from the same address." This is very easy in GG, zero extra clicks; I don't know how easy it is in Y!G. -- Income tax, if I may be pardoned for saying so, John Cowan is a tax on income. --Lord Macnaghten (1901) cowan@hidden.email