The main group that I own (over 3000 members) is run strictly to stay on topic, and to trim excess messages before replying, many members never get off moderation because they don’t mind these rules. I can’t imagine the nightmare of having to moderate out Yahoo-allowed advertising.

BJ Gates

Possibly, if yahoo were to give us a way of labeling spam in each message like all of the other email website would allow. Then, ban or block emails from these people or IP addresses would make a lot more sense than going after a lot of online flea marketeers and casual yard sale folks.

I am now receiving lots of new yahoo group emails like the one I’ve pasted below from this user: thaddeuskey@animail.net

I can’t report it as spam, can I? So I guess you guys better come up with some ways of knowing when spammers are using your system…

James

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1. I know that I’ve put in more than 7,500 hours in moderating my groups. While this was integrated into other work I was doing – it still is a considerable amount of time. Even the smallest amount of earnings from that large amount of hours invested would serve as an encouragement to those moderators who take their moderation duties seriously.

2. Though there still is an inordinate amount of good things we can do with our groups on Yahoo Groups, the temptation to earn a few dollars by developing groups or moving our Yahoo groups to other platforms is lessened if we can get even a modicum of compensation for our work. (And running these groups *IS* work – sometimes quite hard work, actually.)

3. In my estimation, commercializing groups has nothing to do with spamming. Indeed, we’re going to have to confront spam on an ongoing basis whether or not we commercialize our groups. If the groups can be commercialized, Group Owners will have an even greater stake in keeping them as spam-free as possible.

4. Finally, it is quite hard work keeping a large group on topic. Doing so eats up the Moderators’ time. It’s a job, it’s a job, it’s a job keeping these groups on topic.

Thus, I can think of no justification for not removing these particular ban(s). I vote yes…

Thanks, and Keep STRONG, Everyone!!
VW

We have a Yahoo! business account where we set up our emails using our domain name. I was trying to use a single alias and tag it to multiple people, unfortunately an alias can only be assigned to a single person.

If Yahoo! business emails would allow a single alias to be assigned to multiple people I would not use groups – but I was told to use groups as a backdoor way of doing what we need.

Is Yahoo! working/investigating ways to allow a single alias to be assigned to multiple email accounts?????

Since it appears that several of you may have misunderstood the proposal, I wanted to reiterate what Gordon shared above:

A change in guidelines would NOT mean that Yahoo! would be increasing the number of advertisements in groups. In fact, Yahoo! wouldn’t be changing anything.

We’ll consider all feedback we received and post our decision in the coming weeks.

Thanks again for weighing in with your thoughts.

Best,
Jami
Groups Community Manager