NO you would not be excluded. The normal way is to accept joining requests 
which post a sensible note to the owner (i.e not from a spambot) then your 
first mssage is moderated (i.e. looked at for relevance, NOT censored) If it is 
out-and-out spam you will be banned or supended until you have cleaned up the 
'bots on your PC or changed your address/password if it has been hacked. There 
are regular attempts to get through incorrectly set uop Groups. It it is 
regarded as way off topic, or breaking the owners rules you may be warned and 
stay on moderation. like somone who persistently sends 10MB attachments through 
the Group.

At least that is the way the groups I deal with work, and it is extremely 
successfull one has over 3000 members.

The only reservation I have is that new list owners seem to be able to 
unilaterally subscribe participants in another Group to their Group. These are 
then hit with spam. Yahoo will not remove this function and is slow responding 
to complaints about regular offenders. Unfortunately they get your email 
address when you log into the spurious group to unsubscribe. I have not had oo 
much trouble with tis recently so maybe Yahoo have squelched it.

Alan G3NYK


--- On Thu, 24/5/12, Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Andy Smith <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: LF: An "LF-reflector" Yahoo group instead .....PLEASE
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, 24 May, 2012, 23:16
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:17 PM,
> Alberto di Bene <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Another suggestion is to not make it an open group,
> meaning that each
> > request for membership should be
> > accompanied by a very short introductory message
> explaining why that
> > membership is requested.
> > Then the moderator(s) of the group will decide whether
> to accept it or not.
> > I suppose the same is done
> > presently with the Majordomo mailer.
> >
> > And, if that introductory message is convincing, but up
> to a point... then
> > the moderator can accept the individual,
> > but putting him in moderation status, meaning that
> every message from him
> > must be examined by the moderator(s)
> > before being published.  The moderation status can be
> removed after a couple
> > of legitimate messages from the guy,
> > showing that he is not a troll or spammer.
> 
> I see where you're coming from, but there's probably more
> than me on
> here who are just lurkers, and we'd be excluded because we
> don't post.
> I've been signed up to the list for months (nearly a year?)
> purely
> because I'm interested in LF. I don't have the equipment or
> the space
> for LF operation but I've followed the achievements that
> have been
> made between some of the members on this list and it always
> makes for
> interesting reading.
> 
> Running a mailing list isn't difficult, but Yahoo groups is
> probably
> the best way to go. Those who want to get the messages by
> e-mail
> notice no difference, and there's the occasionally useful
> extras if
> needed.
> 
> My 2p worth!
> 
> Andy
> M0VKG
> 
> -- 
> Andy Smith
> +44 7848 958821 : http://m0vkg.org.uk/ : http://andys.org.uk/
> 
>