Shutting down the list

Hi all,

I've decided not to shut down the list after all. It's low
volume,  
but valuable. The issue I was struggling with was the large
amount of  
spam that gets posted to the list. Thanks to advice from Jim
 
Popovitch, though, I've reconfigured the list to just
discard posts  
from non-members, rather than holding them for moderation.
This may  
cause a few legitimate posts to be discarded, so if anyone
has  
problems, please let me know.

Cheers,

Colin
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Am 24.02.2006 um 05:07 schrieb Colin Putney:

> Hi all,
>
> I've decided not to shut down the list after all.
It's low volume,  
> but valuable. The issue I was struggling with was the
large amount  
> of spam that gets posted to the list. Thanks to advice
from Jim  
> Popovitch, though, I've reconfigured the list to just
discard posts  
> from non-members, rather than holding them for
moderation. This may  
> cause a few legitimate posts to be discarded, so if
anyone has  
> problems, please let me know.

Do you bounce these messages so a legitimate sender would be
notified?

- Bert -

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On Feb 24, 2006, at 6:26 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

>
> Am 24.02.2006 um 05:07 schrieb Colin Putney:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've decided not to shut down the list after all.
It's low volume,  
>> but valuable. The issue I was struggling with was
the large amount  
>> of spam that gets posted to the list. Thanks to
advice from Jim  
>> Popovitch, though, I've reconfigured the list to
just discard  
>> posts from non-members, rather than holding them
for moderation.  
>> This may cause a few legitimate posts to be
discarded, so if  
>> anyone has problems, please let me know.
>
> Do you bounce these messages so a legitimate sender
would be notified?

Yes.

The other option is not to bounce, but forward the spam to
me. Then  
I'd be able to manually notify the legitimate sender. I'm
slightly  
worried about spam that has forged, but valid, From:
headers. We'll  
see if it ends up being a problem in practice.

Colin
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