Joe, I've joined the crinum pollen group. I have to say that I agree with Susan about screening new members. You can probably go back and changes some of the setup parameters for that. Jim Shields At 07:20 PM 8/18/2006 -0700, you wrote: >gREAT idea, Joe. > >It might be too late for your crinumpollen group, but may I suggest to >anyone else starting a group that you set it up so members need to be >approved before joining. If you set it up that way people just write a >short note saying why they want to join, that note goes to the list owner, >who needs simply hit "reply" and send to allow the member to join. That's >all the effort it takes. > >I recently had to shut down the calla lily list because of all the idiots >that joined to spam and talk nonsense. >Susan ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA