If Bill does make this change, then members who choose to have their emails
'mangled' have to go to the yahoo Guide group web page to make a posting.
Those who do not choose to hide their email address can still post via
email.

It may not be so much other members that are the cause of some spam, but the
fact that the group is listed on the Yahoo group directory, and this allows
anyone on the net to simply scan the directory and send spam either to
members or the group. In another group that I am moderator for, we have
taken our group off of the directory, and we haven't had any spam problems
that I know of. (knock on silicon).

But like Bill says, once this 'feature' is instituted, it cannot be changed.
I would first recommend taking the group off of the Yahoo Groups directory
and see if that improves matters. That feature can be reversed if wanted.

Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 1:43 PM
Subject: [guide-user] Possible change to evade spam


> Hi folks,
>
> A while back, I noticed that one gent on this list has regularly
> been unsubscribing and re-subscribing. I asked him why he was
> doing this, and he replied that he's had problems with spamming
> via Yahoo mailing lists, including this one.
>
> It occurs to me that our e-mail addresses are visible to one
> another, and someone lurking on this list could easily scoop
> up addresses and spam them. (It's probably happening to me,
> too, but I get and delete immense amounts of spam anyway.
> I'd never notice a new source of it.)
>
> Yahoo provides an option under which e-mail addresses
> are mangled to evade spamming. However, the check-box
> to turn this feature on says:
>
> "...Your group will not be able to use the Polls feature.
> Members who hide their email address will not be able to
> post messages via email. Once you have selected this
> option, you may not change it later."
>
> Since the change is apparently irrevocable, I thought it
> best to ask: does anyone object to this group switching
> over to mangled e-mail addresses?
>
> -- Bill
>
>
>
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