David, thanks for your response.  I understand that some spam will get through because of the system in place.  This was the third message I got from this guy today, through this and another list I subscribe to.  I think it was the second from this one, which is why I asked, but I did not save the other posts, so cannot be sure.  Thanks again for your service.  David

---- David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 12:01 PM 3/14/2012, Dave Mcneely wrote:
> >Mods, can this be stopped?  mcneely
>
> No, it can't.  The only way to stop it would be for moderators to
> hold every post for approval, and that is not going to happen.
>
> Listserv has no way of telling that a message from a list member is
> from a compromised account, so when that happens a minimum of one
> spam message is going to be distributed.  Whether that's the only one
> depends on when a moderator reads the list mail -- we don't have a
> set schedule or stand watches or anything like that.  So far IIRC
> we've always caught it before a second one.
>
> Yours,
> d mod
>

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David McNeely