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.
> > >
> >
>