Joe,

I asked for listmember's feedback about two weeks ago, before I made the
change. You never replied to that request for feedback. The time for
opinions is over.

Your Vanagon list admin,
TomC
tcarrington@relitech.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe L. [mailto:jliasse@toast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 1:36 PM
> To: Carrington, Tom; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: RE: List Anti-SPAM measures
>
>
>     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
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