I agree that another moderator should be appointed. You could then delete the
spam immediately and ban the spammer. That is the way I handle it.

You are also right--I don't visit this group very often. No one does. There
are very few messages posted except during the Tour de France, so there is not
much reason to visit often.

I don't know what happened to the cyclist enthusiasts. Nearly all of the
cycling groups have disappeared. There used to be numerous groups with lots of
postings, especially before Yahoo switched from the Club to the Group format.

--- In roadracingukandireland@yahoogroups.com, "SueW" <gswidemark@...> wrote:
>
> My thought was I could help you by approving new members... that cuts out a
> lot of the spammers. The other thing is going through the members and
> deleting all of those who are "bouncing" and that eliminates most of the
> spammers and the other thing is if someone does send through spam to remove
> them... You took several months to answer this email... so don't seem to get
> to the group very often. I would be glad to help moderate in the ways
> above... let me know...
>
> Sue
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 1a. Re: not having messages emailed
> > Posted by: "precinct4500"
> > Date: Wed May 20, 2009 1:33 pm ((PDT))
> >
> > I have a group with about 1500 members and do NOT want to have to change
> > 99% from moderated to unmoderated, so I take the risk of having a spammer
> > sneak in a message, then I delete the message and ban the spammer. I also
> > have another person that I have designated as a moderator who will
> > sometimes catch them before I do.
> >
> > I tried having messages moderated until I changed the status to
> > unmoderated, and there weren't enough spammers to justify all that extra
> > work. Members quickly complain when someone posts spam, but it doesn't
> > happen that often.
> >
> > Members have also complained if an off-topic message is posted--usually a
> > humerous remark or a political comment during presidential elections. I
> > do not delete these since they are not all that offensive.
> >
> > --- In roadracingukandireland@yahoogroups.com, "SueW" <gswidemark@>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't think that would work with the 120 groups I'm subbed to (and 14
> >> of
> >> them I own and have to read every message). All the owner of this group
> >> would have to do is either clean it up (get rid of the spammers - most of
> >> them are 'BOUNCING' anyway) and have the first message from every member
> >> be
> >> moderated. Or delegate it... I'd be willing to help there. But
> >> something
> >> should be done.
> >>
> >> Sue
> >>
>