Re: spam

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> 
> Good Lord...  I am sorry.  I don't know what's brought on this recent
> jump in the amount of spam going to the mailing lists.  I want to
> reassure everyone that I'm trying to do something (more) about it.
> (I've already got all of the obvious spam protection turned on...)
> 
> If any of you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them.  At this point,
> the only thing I can really think of is to only allow people who are
> subscribed to the list post, but I really hate to do that.  (Lots of
> people tend to be subscribed at home but post from work, or
> vice-versa.)

I agree with other's opion that it is best to keep the lists as they are.
I've used the "only subscribed posters" option, and ran into trouble with
folks who were using systems that gave different return address from what
they had thought. These had changed as their providers (in this case state
agencies) changed their methods.

A little bit of spam is only an irratation. Are there easy ways for you to
edit those messages out of archives? At least then the messages wouldn't
continue to provide advertising for the jerks.

Erich
 
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