Managing Yahoo Groups

 

I manage two Yahoo groups.

One of the problems is that people join and then attempt to polute them with large amounts of spam. This has resulted in several worthwhile groups having to be shut down.

So how can this problem be minimised.

1. Tell all new members that they can't post until they've posted one sensible post and set them on moderation until they do so.

2. If that first post is spam, just delete it.

3. If they send another spam message, then remove them from the list.

The two lists that I manage have not had any problems with spammers.