End Google Group Spam

September 2nd, 2009 by John Wonderlich · 1 Comment

I’m a member of 30 Google Groups.

Among them is the Open House Project google group, which I moderate. (see the link on the right)

There’s been an upsurge lately in spam on these groups, and I’d like to suggest a solution.

Moderators of these groups should change the settings so that new members’ posts are moderated.

To make this adjustment, moderators can go to the “group settings” tab on the right, and then go to the “access” tab. At the bottom of that page is an option for “no moderation”, and then under that a box for “Messages from new members are moderated”.

This is the box I’ve checked on our group, and it has cut down on uninvited spam immensely. The tradeoff is that I have to manually approve messages for new members, but this isn’t burdensome, and is easily preferable to spam getting through to all the list members.

Tags: openhouseproject

1 response so far ↓

Joel // Sep 2, 2009 at 8:18 pm

I’m contemplating using Google Groups for three Elementary School Homework groups all of which would be private, invitation-only of course in which I would prefer NOT to have to moderate individual messages.

Is GG appropriate, in your mind, for this? I’ve set up PHP ML’s before, but GG seemed a free and easy way to do this for our kids’ classes. I assume that GG has a private setting.

Will making them private, invitation-only reliably prevent GG spam while still allowing my parents to freely post within the walls of the group without my moderating the list?

Thanks!
JoeL