>On Tue, 13 Dec 1994 10:26:22 -0700 Rick Narad said: >>What if we all adopted a policy of filtering any commercial site which >>originated a spam? >I would much rather have all of us set SEND to PRIVATE. That way, outside >people would not be able to spam our lists (and our subscribers would not >have to read sub letters sent to the list's address). Unfortunately, anyone cleaver enough to SPAM, is cleaver enough to subscribe. It just slows them down a little. CONFIRM= slows them down more. Perhaps much more if every list were setup that way: then their e-mail system would get flooded with both Confirmation processing and Welcome files. Sounds like poetic justice. [log in to unmask]