Sam,

> By noon we had received endured the full "Wet Teen . . . ."
> header being resent to the list four times by people who want to
> complain about unacceptable SPAM.
....

> Someone at least had the wisdom to change the header to "Why the delete
> key is not enough!" and most others followed this lead but then this
> produced about fifteen more messages.

        Guilty as charged, good point

> We would have to use our delete keys much less if we didn't have this 20
> to 1 or greater reaction to almost every piece of spam that we get.

        This piece of deboned computer-processed luncheon meat was
prticularly offensive

> I don't see any of this as a reason to close the list.
>  We can take steps to reduce SPAM, particularly
> very offensive SPAM - whatever that really is, but we don't have to
> close the list to do it.
>I vote to keep the list open, but to work at finding ways that are not
> too troublesome for Tom Carrington, but that reduce the SPAM.
>

        Hear, hear!

JGS