Can messages be moderated only until a member's first approved post?

Question

When I first started using the "moderate new members" flag, I thought it meant that when a new member joined, their first posting would come to me for approval before going out to the group, but once I approved it they would be unmoderated. That is the way I would like for it to work--all I need to know is that the person is not a spammer and I can tell that from the first post. The way it seems to work now is that I actually have to log on and change the individual's settings for each new member. Since I usually approve messages by replying in my email, this is considerable extra work. It is less work to log on to ban spammers, which I have to do every few months.

Answer 1

The new member's stay moderated until you change their posting status.  That setting does not automatically change to unmoderated after the new member's first approved post.

Answer 2

read complete link, but here's a portion- it works this way since if after the first post it was automatic, spammers would post a decent 1st post and after that, whammo! spam.

"This change must be made individually and explicitly for each member. There’s no set time period for membership at which point a member will automatically stop being treated as a "new" member. They’re "new" in this context until you explicitly change their setting."

Can I moderate just the new members who join my group? How?

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/...