from: >Dave Phillips >BIOSPH-L list owner >As long as subscribers don't find it awkward to post and obtain regular >list mail, many seem to prefer making accessing other features >a bit awkward at the margins in exchange from protection from spammers. >Every list is different; and some are expressly targeted more often than >others. In the case of BIOSPH-L, I had the usenet gateway closed and set >posting to subscriber-only because of the prevalance of mail header >forging >in spam. Since there is no way to get back at these spammers (and >attempts We are considering a USENET gateway for a list used by foreign language teachers. I thought that if the USENET group were moderated or read-only, we could avoid unwanted posting through the gateway. Am I wrong about this? Was the problem stated above that addresses were taken from the USENET posts and used to forge e-mail posts, or were the forgeries sent in via USENET? We have been very cautious about opening a USENET gateway but are considering it because of subscriber interest in being able to read FLTEACH without filling their mailbox. Bob --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Ponterio | [log in to unmask] co-manager of FLTEACH | State Univ. of New York Cortland Foreign Language Teaching Forum ----------------------------------- http://www.cortland.edu/www/flteach/