Re: Require info from prospective members
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debbie
 I have one simple and short sentence in my pending member message. It's not even a question. "The moderators of the xxx list ask that you hit reply to this message and identify yourself. Thank you. " It is a neighborhood list of over 3000 members that has been active for over 17 of the 33 years that I have been living here. I know most of the people who live here and can recognize many of the email addresses. Not all the members live here, and there are always new people moving in, so I need to know who they are before approving. I don't need their whole life story, although some do offer quite a bit of information! Sometimes it is entertaining. Some people can just hit reply and send because their full name comes out in the From field. I resend the message every day until they respond (or not, because they can't be bothered to check their spam.) It's only been three weeks that we're with , so I haven't had a chance to see a pending member drop off the list. In Yahoogroups, I have pending members going back to July. I've never rejected there because I didn't want them to see that the moderator did the rejection, but that the system did. If Mark does put a comment box on the subscribe page, I will have to change my above sentence so that people who do comment with their identity, don't reply to the pending member message. Yesterday I had someone try to subscribe, who actually was already subscribed for many years, but hadn't read her recent messages. The address she tried to subscribe with had a typo in the domain. I knew she wasn't going to get any messages, so I just deleted it. She finally figured it out and posted her message. I've got so many more stories, not pending member related, as I'm sure you all do, too. Lots of lazy people and highly educated people that are just plain (can't think of a nice word to put in here) when it comes to some of the simpler things. Debbie ? On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote: Richard, |