Yep, I use yahoogroups moderation the same way for lists I run.  Once  
in a while though, the kids (these are robotics-club lists), will use  
some inappropriate word, and others will respond with the same words,  
etc and I have to block a few of them, until I can speak with them to  
stop it.

My spam issue was that yahoogroups blocked my own emails (on the lists  
I run), and it turns out that they blocked emails from any GoDaddy  
webmail client, since they had previously received spam from GoDaddy  
(some other client, perhaps on the same server).  I ended up having to  
log into yahoogroups each time to send my messages, cause I keep  
another yahoo email open, so I had to keep logging in and out of both  
accounts.  Sending messages from email and my blackberry is so  
convenient.

My email to yahoo support resulted in a canned response telling me how  
to use the moderation features to control spam.  My reply to them,  
explaining why their response didn't answer my question, resulted in  
nothing -- apparently that was an outgoing-only email address.  And  
later that day I got a canned email survey asking how they did.  Ugh!

Cheers,
-Neil.



Quoting Harold Hallikainen <harold@hallikainen.org>:
> I run a couple lists on yahoogroups. For spam control, I moderate all new
> members. Once I see they are on topic, I unmoderate them. A recent spammer
> put the spam in the calendar so it would be sent every day from here on
> out. So, I disallowed anyone using the calendar. I also disallowed all
> other features except for the mailing list, again keeping new members
> moderated. One particular list has had a very persistent spammer in India.
>
> Harold



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