At 16:40 1/12/2005 Wednesday, Charles Oriez wrote:
>You might even consider going one step further, and make the lists semi
>moderated. On some of my lists that are open to public subscription, I
>set new subscribers to moderated by default, and turn them loose only
>after a couple of posts have convinced me that they aren't spammers. I
>learned that one the hard way.
Amen, brother! There is almost nothing worse than having a spammer
invade your long-time list that you cultivated for years (or a decade)
just to have your thousands of subscribers abused, and the net result
having some of them unsubscribe.
/Pete Weiss
retired