While I certainly appreciate your willingness to go through the extra
work I'm not sure your not generating more work for yourself than the
present situation warrants. We are getting very little spam and such as we
do get is easy to identify and delete. Your examination of every email from
a "foreign" address before allowing it to appear on the list seems like a
lot of trouble for you to go through just to save us a few strokes of the
delete key.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Carrington, Tom
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 11:22 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: List Anti-SPAM measures

A few weeks ago, I asked for opinions on whether or not we should "close"
the list in an effort to eliminate SPAM messages. Closing the list means
that non-subscribers cannot post to the list.

The majority of respondents wanted to leave the list "open"...but they only
beat out the "close the list" by a few votes. Based on that, I have changed
the list policy so that when a non-subscriber posts to the list, Gerry will
forward the mail message to me for approval before distributing it to the
list. This will tighten things up just a little.

If you post from e-mail address that is different that the one you
subscribed with, expect a delay before your post goes out since I will need
to approve it first. I tend to check the server 4-5 times a day, so the
delay should be minimal.

Your Vanagon list admin,

TomC
tcarrington@relitech.com
http://www.relitech.com/tomc
http://volksweb.relitech.com
85 Vanagon Crew Cab
82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion
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