I can be a co-owner or moderator. I already take care of about 10 or
so groups and would be glad to help with this. I watch for the
spambots and can recognize most of them as soon as they join. If they
get really bad you can always set the list to moderate new members
then approve them after several viable posts. This way all the
knowledge and members in this great group can be preserved.

Fran Bourdeau

--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com , "Nicole Massey" <nyyki@...> wrote:
>
> I tend to believe that a stable arrangement is 2 owners and 3
moderators.
> That way you've got 5 sets of eyes, (well, 4 if I'm one of those
people)
> looking at everything that passes through.
>
> I set my groups generally so that anyone can join without having to
get
> approved, and new members are moderated. I usually wait for the
second
> message before taking someone off moderation, and spammers are
warned 3
> times before being removed and banned. It does an extremely good
job of
> keeping spam messages off the list.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com [mailto: oberheim@yahoogroups.com ] On
Behalf
> Of phonophobie
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 8:46 AM
> To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [oberheim] Re: Finding the Owner
>
> at the present time now, i don ´t going to do that... but somebody
else can
> do it, when we change the ownership... anyone ;)
>
> --- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com <mailto:oberheim%
40yahoogroups.com> ,
> "somethingkillingyou"
> <somethingkillingyou@> wrote:
> >
> > 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 <mailto:oberheim%
40yahoogroups.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 <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.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>