At 01:01 PM 12/20/96 -0500, you wrote:
>American.edu and Jim McIntosh, et al, provide an EXTREMELY valuable service
>with their gateway, and I'm sure this thread isn't intended by anyone to
>knock it.  What it does seem to indicate though is that there is a
 
I worship the man and the institution. :)
 
>have had a chance to remove spam?  Is there any way the rest of us can
>facilitate the maintenance and/or enhancement of news-to-list gateways?
 
I would think the easiest long-term solution (in the grand scheme) would be
to have one more user setting - "Nospam", settable only by the list owner;
much like the existing "Norenew". This would allow the listowner to pry
open closed subscribers who've been tagged as spamsters (which I'd think
could happen for a small variety of reasons other than spam).
 
I don't know how "universal" this need is; it may only be those of us with
gated newsgroups that need it, but I think that option would provide the
most flexibility.
 
Philo
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