I'm obviously not in charge of this, but my two cents is that the ability
for people to sign up freely outways the cost of having to remove a
spammer. when it happens on my other yahoo groups, I just remove them and
send out a posting to the listserv letting people know that the offending
spammer was removed. I don't usually mention the listserv to people, so I
was impressed by two of seven folks on the line had trouble joining the
group. Makes me wonder how many other people are out there trying to join?


Ryan
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Adam Lake <adam@...> wrote:

> There really is no better system. People can request to get added to the
> group and then they get added, but if we open it so everyone can add
> themselves, we'll end up with massive problems with spam, which happened a
> few years ago when one person slipped through the cracks.
>
> Adam
>
> Jared Weybright wrote:
>
>> Morning
>> Adam Lake adam@... <mailto:adam@...> and
>> myself are apparently the gate keepers to the list serve since Christine
>> left town. If you or anyone you know can't get on please email us (and by
>> that I mean Adam) directly.
>> I would love to change this system, so if you have a better way to do it
>> fire away.
>> Jared
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Ryan Scott <mailto:oregonryan@...>
>> *To: *eugeneultimate <mailto:EugeneUltimate@yahoogroups.com>
>> *Sent:* 7/31/2008 9:34:49 AM
>> *Subject:* [EugeneUltimate] pickup turnout and listserv issues
>>
>> Hey everyone, turnout at pickup was great last night! For a while
>> we had
>> 7's on the line with subs, and by the end we had about six to
>> eight people
>> waiting to get in the game. That's awesome! High quality play with
>> a wide
>> range of players, skilled to those getting up and running on their
>> skills.
>> See you next week Wed at 6pm! Directions to the fields can be found at
>> www.eugenecoed.com .
>>
>> I talked to some people last night who said they couldn't get on the
>> eugeneultimate listserv, one guy had been trying for a year to get
>> added to
>> no avail. 1) who is moderating this listserv, and can we get the
>> restrictions opened up so people can add themselves, and 2) if you
>> know
>> anyone who is having a hard time getting on the listserv, email me
>> their
>> email and I'll try to help them out.
>>
>> Ryan
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>> [ps, in regards to point 1 above, sometimes people put restrictions on
>> joining these listservs to keep spam out. As someone who has moderated
>> three yahoogroup listservs for years, it's not a big issue and can
>> be dealt
>> with my removing/ banning the offensive spammer].
>>
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