> Moderators have the power to ban and remove members. > However, the best thing to do is place all new members on > moderated status. If they post something reasonable they can > have their posting status changed to unmoderated. If the > post garbage the post gets deleted along with the poster. > Simple and easy. The majority of groups are going this way > to deal with the spammers.
That's exactly the policy of this group, and it has been this way for at least a couple of years. New members posts are moderated until they prove they're not spammers, and non-members cannot post at all. In fact, that's why the number of spam messages has dropped to practically nil on CBML. I'm wondering why, Mark, you even brought it up. This "bikerguy##" hasn't graced our group, but woiuld certainly get banned from the list before his posts get posted. I don't see any evidence that any nonsense from him has ever been posted to CBML. What I'd really like to be able to do is categorically refuse all membership requests from the yahoo.co.in domain, as that's where the bulk of attempted spam appears from.
