Merging the groups sounds like a very good idea, given the combined traffic.

Jack


>--- In Sarrusophone@yahoogroups.com, heckelphone@... wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For anyone who is tired of spam, I have a sarrusophone group at
>Yahoo as well (sarrusophone2). The reason that there are two groups
>is that we started these groups at different services, and mine was
>later acquired by Yahoo.
>>
>> I have no complaint against the owner of this group, other than he
>hasn't been able to moderate the group recently, and hasn't (or
>can't) take steps to prevent the spam we're now seeing. My policy is
>to moderate new subscribers, and ban anyone who sends obvious spam.
>>
>> So, feel free to switch!
>>
>> Grant
>
>Or be members of both. :-]
>
>Actually I've been banning anyone who posts spam as soon as I catch
>it (as well as deleting said spam from the queue (though Jessica's
>recent comeback to "sexyjessica" was too fun to let languish). I'm
>not as active as I'd like to be because I currently have no Internet
>access from home and have to do the work from a library.
>
>I've been considering moderating new subscribers, though. It'd be an
>improvement over moderating posts (with my sparse attendance).
>
>(I've also been considering giving Grant co-ownership... maybe we
>should just merge the two lists.)