Bob,
To clarify, my method in no way endangers anything as no spammers are able to join my group. As I said, I do review each individual account before unmoderating it. I get notifications that Joe, Sally, Mary, have joined.? I go into the member directory, recognize their email addresses (because I know them in real life and their accounts were on our former yahoo group), select all 3 and unmoderate them. They haven't made a post yet, I'm just doing the work up front rather than waiting for them to post. It is not circumventing the spam filter, but rather doing it in a slightly different manner than designed. In addition our group is private and these are usually people for whom I have sent invitations to join. If there were to be someone that I did not recognize then I would leave them moderated, but we have never had any 'strangers' try to join before.
I absolutely agree that spam prevention is very important and would not do anything to risk spammers getting in.
-patti
