On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Ruben ON3RVH on3rvh@on3rvh.be wrote:
But it would mean more overhead for the maintainer as there's an application to support and it is likely to get a lot of attention from spammers who try to use the forum for their spam.
Here is my experience with groups.io
When a new person signs into the list, you can set it up so they are moderated for their first X number of posts. (You can make the list fully moderated, but that slows the flow.) If I know the poster, I typically take moderation off on their first post, people I don't know, I look at that first post and ofter take off moderation if it looks legitimate. You can always put someone on moderation or block them.
I have had no spam bot activity, I think their anti-spam controls are probably blocking attempts to even subscribe. I have not had a spammer to block as far as I recall.
Groups can be made public or private -- I think public read, subscriber only postings are good. I always make the wiki public.
73,
Ruben - ON3RVH