Hey, make a couple of people moderators, set the entrance requirements to
moderated for new users, and that'll do it. You don't have to do everything
yourself, and it'll go a long way to removing spam.

I moderate/own several groups, and it really does work well.

And I'm glad to see you're still around. I've seen too many synth groups
where the owners have gone away, and it's far more than any other category
of groups.

Another benefit to having moderators is that there's someone around to clear
out the bouncing member list from time to time.

-----Original Message-----
From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com [mailto: oberheim@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf
Of phonophobie
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 2:50 AM
To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [oberheim] Re: Finding the Owner

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 <mailto:oberheim%40yahoogroups.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.
>