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[arethinn]

Argh. 200 characters is nowhere near enough space to explain one's interest in the topic of a group, not if you are simultaneously trying to demonstrate you are not a troll or a complete dork or otherwise undersired by the current membership of the list. Stupid Yahoo. 500 characters would be good. Why such a tiny limit? Feh.

Related - does anyone know if list membership requests expire as rejected if they are not approved within some period of time? Or does it require someone manually doing so?

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[rhiannasilel.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you should consider moving to Google Groups. I'm not sure how much space they offer for requests and whatnot, but I know that you can lock down your membership.

[arethinn]

It's not my group.

[rhiannasilel.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay, sorry, my bad.

[shalora.livejournal.com]

I co-mod a yahoo group. I'm not sure if requests expire, but if it's a closed list, then yes, it has to be manually approved or rejected. I approve most of mine, we only patrol it to keep trolls out, but I've had a bunch recently with no explanation whatsoever... it's weird. One was a UK address, even, and I'm thinking, um, you realize that this is a local group and even I shouldn't be a member anymore? weird.

[arethinn]

If you mean it was yahoo.uk, I used to know some people who were actually in the US, but got yahoo.uk or yahoo.ca addresses because the international sites had less egregious advertising and were slower to be updated to new formats than the .com, IOW, they got to keep features they wanted and avoid things they hated about the US site.

I'm not sure if requests expire, but if it's a closed list, then yes, it has to be manually approved or rejected.

What I mean is, if no one does either, do I get automatically rejected after 14 days (for example)?

[shalora.livejournal.com]

No, it was not a yahoo address. All I recall is it ended in .uk, and it was not a yahoo address. Beyond that... who knows. I wrote to her, and she gets it so... whatever. She's in.

Copied and pasted from Yahoo's FAQs: "Group moderators have a responsibility to attend to pending actions in their groups. If a group is "restricted," a group moderator must approve or reject all new memberships within 14 days."

[arethinn]

Hm. That still isn't exactly clear, but I'm going to guess that requests are automatically rejected if no action has been taken within 14 days. So that leaves my original question - was I actively rejected, or did someone just never see it, or never get around to it, or whatever - with no real answer. Bah!

[shalora.livejournal.com]

From what it said later on in the paragraph, I was lead to believe that all requests not approved within 14 days were deleted, hence the user was not allowed into the group. What group is it, may I ask? 'cause if it's the one I co-mod, I'm gonna have to be embarassed now... ;)

[arethinn]

No, it was some traditional witchcraft group.