On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:42:08 +0000, "Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I think that membership should not require explicit approval, but pre-moderation of the first few posts would be reasonable. Inability to post-moderate is a problem, but that needs new software.
I believe all new members *are* moderated until one of the moderators explicitly decides they can be trusted (which usually only takes one or two good messages, I think). If by "post-moderate" you mean removing bad emails without requiring all emails to be pre-approved, that's impossible, with any software, since it would involve deleting emails off mail servers around the world...
It means using forum software not a list manager. Which is a fundamental change.
Believe it or not, as the lead administrator of a global mail network for a Fortune 500 company I *do* know how email works ;o)
Guy (JzG)