Hi, Bill

Those pesky spammers get everywhere. I recently accepted a new member into my
Yahoo art group and 5 adverts for something-or-other were promptly posted as
messages to the group! I've deleted "her".

--- In syndic8@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Kearney" <wkearney@...> wrote:
>
> We've had a spate of spamming attempts lately.
>
> Thus I've instituted manual approval to join the list instead of it
> just being open.
>
> The system automatically joins a user to the list when they create an
> account on syndic8. We get e-mail notifications of these. We also
> get e-mail notices when those accounts actually subscribe.
>
> What comes as a surprise is how many requests to join the list are
> coming a) without an s8 account being created and b) without any
> resemblence of a sensible subscriber request. It's clear the spammers
> are running automated scripts just signing up to lists without human
> intervention.
>
> Hopefully this will cut down a bit on the spammers trying to harvest
> addresses from our list.
>
> Anyway, regular subscribers should really see no difference.
>
> Thank you,
>
> --Bill Kearney
> Syndic8.com
>