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Number   :  9158
Date     :  2004-11-07
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  Moderation Policy
Size(KB) :  1



Hi, all.

For almost a year, this discussion group's message posting
and moderation policy has been as follows:

1. Anyone can view the messages.

2. Only members can post messages.

3. No attachment to a message is allowed.

4. New member's first message is subject to moderation.

This policy was created about a year ago in order to
eliminate spam messages that had reached an annoying
level then.

Effective immediately, the moderation (Item 4 above) is
no longer practiced. This is due to the fact Yahoo's
anti-spam mechanism apparently works quite well now.
I haven't seen many spams that needed to be deleted very
often in the past several months.

Since the drawback of the moderation policy was that
the first posting by a new member always had a latency
that often prompts the unsuspected poster to send more
messages. Depending upon how often the moderator (myself)
checks the pending message, the delay was anywhere from
a few hours to a day (or even more sometimes).

I just concluded that the sporadic spams that elude
Yahoo's line of defenses are sufficiently rare, it
no longer amounts to an annoyance. Rather, the delays
suffered by the first-time posters outweigh the spams.
Besides, I can free myself from the chore.

Let us hope Yahoo's defense will remain effective.

Kan Yabumoto



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