I set my group on “moderated” in “Spam Control” temporarily, meaning that posts need approval before being sent to the group. The problem is that this doesn?t work perfectly. There is always a post or two going through without being approved.

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How can this happen? And what can I do about it?

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Victoria

Shal,

I did indeed find only a few members with that P and changed it.

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How can this happen?

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Or, you may have one or more thread with a hashtag carrying the Replies Unmoderated option

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We do not work with hashtags, so this cannot be the reason.

But I noticed that the few members concerned were at times moderated in the old yahoo group. Could that be the reason?

Thanks anyway

Victoria

Do you have more than a single owner?

If there are co-owners or moderators, you will not be notified when they approve a post...

Yes, I do. But the problem was indeed the overriding moderation (P) of some members as Shal supposed. Approval of posts shows up in “activities”, as I noticed.

Victoria

Shal, you wrote:

Members copied over during a Y!Group transfer retain the Posting Privileges they had there (along with their Email Delivery setting and join date). So it is possible that those particular members were also Unmoderated in the Y!Group.

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o.k. but this in my opinion does not explain the following setting:

- three or four members were moderated – no matter if still remainings of the old yahoo group or newly moderated

- for special reasons I set the whole group on moderated so that each incoming post would have to be accepted individually

- In this case the three or four moderated members all of a sudden were the only ones who could post (having the little blue P next to their name),

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Does this mean putting everybody on moderated overrides the members who were originally moderated? Not having been aware of this fact the contrary of what I intended took place: Everybodys post had to be individually accepted exept the ones of the moderated members.

Is this logical (algorithmwise)? Or is it a bug?

Now of course I corrected this with your help (smile).

Victoria

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Duane, are you sure you understood my question? Or maybe I didn?t express it well enough ….

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Members that always require approval will have a blue M (setting of Override: moderated.)? Those with the blue P will always be able to post (setting of Override: not moderated).? Because of special situations that may arise, such as yours, it's usually not a good idea to use the P setting.? These settings are in effect regardless of group settings.

I never set s.o. on P. The system did. It changed M into P without me doing anything (just concerning those few members) when I set the whole group on moderated. I wanted to know if this is a bug or a system-logic procedure…

Victoria

Duane,

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I will check this again and then see if it?s maybe my fault of mixing up terminology.

Thanks anyway

Victoria