I think, instead, that the join filter is the answer...
even if you check it just once in a week, that's better than to let
those fuckers join here without a problem...

what do you think about it

it's slower but is safer...

--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com , "phonophobie" <phonehead@...> wrote:
>
> hello nicole, i ´m the owner of this little group. yes...
>
> i decided to keep this group open for everyone to join up, because
> it ´s easier for everyone to join and i don ´t have the time to check
> every join request. everytime when i sign in via yahoo i check for
> spam, and i ban those stupid persons and delete the spam
messages...
>
> however when anybody thinks it could be done better and want, check
> every join request for example, we could do change the ownership if
> this is possible. i have no problem with this. in the past, i just
> wanted to create a group for oberheim gear, because there were no
> active groups anymore...
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com , "Nicole Massey" <nyyki@> wrote:
> >
> > Phonophobie is the name of the person who started this list. I'm
> thinking
> > that if we can manage to track down this person, we can either
get
> them to
> > reassert list ownership or pass it on to several willing members
and
> let us
> > manage it.
> >
> > The other alternative is to just start a new list. That's a lot
of
> work, as
> > it involves digging out all the links, files, photos, and users
from
> this
> > list and diverting them to another list. Since the original list
> owner made
> > the members of the list hidden, this is a lot more headache than
it
> first
> > looks to be.
> >
> > Phonophobie is, according to my preliminary web searches, a band
doing
> > electronica, and there's a good possibility that the band still
has some
> > contact presence somewhere for at least some of the members.
Anyone
> up for
> > looking around
> >
> > The spam will continue until we manage to get rid of the open
nature
> of the
> > group, and that requires a list owner.
> >
>