Vincenzo Taormina and the Forum for The Jewelry Addicted | Google Groups

On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:58:47 -0700, in rec.crafts.jewelry Taormina Studio
wrote:

Peter,

Thank you very much for your well explained reply.
To tell you the true, I been part of this group
for about couple days, and I did't relized
that this group had an active Moderator.
I saw couple Britney whatever's Ads, and I guess got the wrong idea.

Best regards
Vincenzo Taormina

Vincenzo,

I've been the moderator ever since the group voted to change it's status to
moderated in 1997. I volunteered then, when asked, not realizing then that
it's a difficult thing to change once one is in place. Fortunately, I sort of
enjoy doing it. Most of the time, that is... And most of the time, I don't
seem to have too many readers annoyed at me... (I hope).

As to the Britney whatever posts, occasionally, posts manage to bypass the
moderation setup with this or other moderated newsgroups. Normally, commercial
advertising or off topic posting isn't allowed, and I enforce this by rejecting
posts that don't meet the group's charter requirements. But if spammers bother
to forge the approval headers in a post, then you might see those posts on some
news servers. Many news servers reject that sort of faked posting when they
detect it as mass posted spam. I for example, see no such recent faked
postings to this group on the earthlink servers I use. But Google's news
servers are sometimes sloppy about that, and may have let a few through. Not
much I can do about it most of the time, since most of those posts with forged
headers come from overseas, often China or Russia, , beyond anything I can
affect. When it's sent by someone I can trace to a U.S. or conforming european
ISP, then I can ask that ISP to discipline the poster. Forging approval headers
like that is generally considered a serious breach of an ISP's terms of service,
so most ISPs cancel the accounts of people who do that. But as I said, this
doesn't often turn out to be a possibility due to the source of such posts. .
Fortunately, most spammers don't bother with moderated groups, simply because
there's little benefit to them, what with posts not reaching many readers, and
general annoyance being generated, rather than business.

In any case, I'd encourage you to stick around and participate in this group if
you wish. We're not an enormous group of people, and usually the volume of
posts is relatively small, at least as compared to the much busier and larger
orchid list. But it's an interesting group at times. You might grow to enjoy
us... :-) And some here might also be able to offer help in business idea,
marketing schemes, etc. if you ask for such advice...

Peter Rowe
moderator
rec.crafts.jewelry