Why am I not receiving membership requests for my Yahoo Group?

Question

My Yahoo Group has restricted access. People send emails requesting membership. Some are getting through, but a quick check of my log shows that not all of them are. Any idea why?

Answer 1

most are spam bots that never make it in. seeing them in those logs means it's working properly to keep them out. spammers randomly attempt to join groups and don't bother checking group settings. almost all groups will have a number of these in their logs

invites don't require approval- if you go to the membership of activity logs and type in 'invited' into the search, it will list all who were sent one and match them up to unapproved members