I agree with Joe on this one--hate to see you put more work on yourself
unless the problem really gets bad.  I manage a small list and have even had
a spammer subscribe, spam the list, and then unsubscribe a few minutes
later.  Just block any spammer from subscribing or sending from that email
address.

Harold

>     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
>65 Notchback

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