Stop spammers from broadcasting to your Google Groups

stop_spam_broadcasts_on_google_groups.txt

Stop spammers from broadcasting to your Google Groups
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Is your Google Groups mailing list broadcasting messages from spammers?
If so, it makes your group look bad, annoys subscribers, pollutes the
archives, and hurts your community.

Thankfully, you can easily stop these spam broadcasts. By changing your
group settings, administrators will be able to see the first posts made
by new members and decide whether to allow them before they're broadcast
to your subscribers. You can choose to mark the moderated message as
spam and ban the user forever, allow the single post, or allow all
further posts from this user without further moderation.

For this moderation process to work effectively, you need to empower at
least a few trustworthy administrators to read and process requests
fairly and promptly.

Here's how to activate moderation of new messages:
 
1. Login as an admin to your Google Group
2. Click "Group settings" in the sidebar
3. Click "Access" tab in "Group settings"
4. Change "Who can post messages?" to "Members only"
5. Change "Message moderation" to "No moderation - messages are
   delivered directly" -- but also activate the "Messages from new members
   are moderated"
6. Click "Save Changes"