As group owner of Hammond Zone I know what a pain these spammers can
be. One of our moderators suggested placing new members
on 'moderated' for their first few posts so we know they are not
spammers or troublemakers. This seems to work great.

Darren

--- In ethelsmith@yahoogroups.com, got9lives2k <no_reply@y...> wrote:
>
>
> There is almost nothing that can be done about these ###holes who
> join a club, post a message and leave. If a small club like this
> gets a few a year, imagine how the more popular clubs have to
deal...
> although there's nothing I can do... sorry anyway.. it really
pisses
> me off, but yahoo doesn't seem to be of much help in banning these
> people for good from using their services.