In Yahoo Groups how can we delete mail from certain authors or certain subjects?

Question

Too much of the "inbox-choking" letters from very prolific authors fills my INBOX. How may I set up this News Group to exclude such and/or subjects which do not interest me?

I wish I new how any one person could turn out 30 or so letters to the group each day. Amazing!!! I believe this endeavor could use up ones whole day. What do you think?

Answer 1

[I'm answering this with the idea that you are a list member and not a moderator or owner of the list.]

To reach the owner(s) of any Yahoo Group use the e-mail address format of:

name of group [hyphen] owner [at] yahoogroups [dot] com

[To leave a group just replace "owner" with "unsubscribe" and to join a group replace "owner" with "subscribe" when you address the message.]

You can also do as suggested and set up filters in your inbox to delete messages from certain list members or edit your group membership by going to the group's web page and clicking the "edit membership" link and picking between "daily digest" and "read online only" instead of getting messages individually.

Answer 2

If you are a "regular" member of that group and receive individual emails from it, you can follow instructions given by crazy_mom2 or delete them from your email inbox without opening them. Or you can complain to the group owner in a private email. The group owner's address is at the very bottom of each group message that you receive.

If you are the group owner or a moderator, you can contact this person and request that he/she post more more than five messages per day.  Or you can change the posting status for him/her to Moderated. Then those messages will be held in Pending Messages where you can wait until late in the day to delete or approve them in one whack.  If you delete them, he/she will not get a Yahoo message that the messages were deleted.  If you reject them, he/she will.

Answer 3

Yahoo does not have this feature. if you're set to individual mail, you'll get all group mail. some mail providers have this feature, but Yahoo does not. you can consider changing your message delivery to digest or no mail

go to this link http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups click edit my groups on the top left- locate group (if there's more than one) under the column message delivery click the arrow for the drop down box digest or no mail- click save changes