[HBR] Paraellel HBR site?

[Walt Hutchens]

> The only problem is controlling content. There is a lot of unwanted
> spam and bogus membership requests, that I filter out and that
> QTH.net filters out.

This can be handled by setting the Yahoo list (Yahoo Group) up as
'moderated' so the owner (or designated moderators) must approve each
post. Or -- less work -- you can set it up so that new members are
moderated, then you take them off moderate once they post something
showing they they're real.

I shouldn't think too many folks pushing hot deals for Male
Enhancement would be able to say anything very meaningful about an
HBR-13.

I moderate perhaps a few dozen lists, several of them very active, and
what actually seems to happen is that the spammers (spambots, etc.)
don't even bother with lists that are moderated.  With total traffic
of 50-100 posts daily, I don't think I reject one spam per month,
except for those that appear to have been sent by malware that has set
up shop in a legit member's machine.  Those have averaged one or two a
week, recently.

All that being said, I'm not sure that a parallel site is really
needed.  This one works very well indeed (thank you, Kees!) and the
traffic is low enough that there's no real payoff in trying to divide
it -- quite the opposite in fact.

The limit on the size of a Yahoo Group files area (and pictures area)
hasn't been an issue for any of our lists but the HBR material is
heavily picture-oriented; I think that would have to be checked
carefully.  That's especially true because most of our material is
archival in nature -- there's no date after which it will be no longer
needed.

The HBR hosting was in the past a serious problem -- as a matter of
principle the former host established that anyone running the mailer I
use was a spammer and rejected all posts.  But that has long been
solved.

I've certainly nothing against the idea but with small footnotes --
Yahoo Groups are now almost universally known and have a reasonable
list subject search function so we might pick up a few more members --
this seems like the solution to a non-problem.

Walt
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