This is a good idea.

I don't see any significant drawbacks.

Marshall Ruskin
84 Westy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob O'Shaughnessy" <vanagon@COLUMBUS.RR.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 6:25 AM
Subject: Spam, a modest proposal

>      First, the spam is getting really bad.  2-3 messages per day is
> starting to enter the realm of wasting the resources that we all
> personally contributed.
>
>      Because of this, the list should be closed again.  Anyone who chose
> to spam at that point will have been authenticated, and can be instantly
> booted, and hunted down like a dog, if need be.
>
>      The only reasonable argument that I've heard so far for keeping the
> list open is that people need posting access to the list from a non-list
> email account.  While something as common as a work account is should
> easily handled by subscribing and then turning the nomail option on (if
> it isn't, there are other options), there remains the problem of people
> making emergency postings from the road.
>
>      I would suggest that the answer here is another email address that
> is forwarded to the list.  Something easy to remember, like
> 911@vanagon.com (despite the Porsche implications) or emergency@v or
> help@v.  This address could be easily changed when or if the spammers
> have figured out that the address goes to all of our subscribers and/or
> it could be set up to go through a filtering service like SpamCop
> (http://www.spamcop.net) that would intercept most of the spam, and give
> us the opportunity to report it.  If need be, I'll volunteer my SpamCop
> account (and the costs incurred) to take care of this.
>
>      Okay, discuss amongst yourselves.
>
> _________________________________________________________
>
> Bob O'Shaughnessy,         Columbus, OH
> vanagon@columbus.rr.com
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