At 14:36 12/20/2006 Wednesday, Bill Brown wrote:
>"LISTSERV site administrators' forum" <[log in to unmask]> 
>wrote on 12/20/2006 02:30:56 PM:
>
>> Be careful what you ask for, you may get it.  Eventually, you'll see
>> either/both of spam/worms posting to the list as the list address gets
>> scraped.
>
>There are some very valid reason for using it, such a public contact 
>addresses.  I beleive [log in to unmask] is actualy a list. (I munged the 
>address intentionally)

Also, you can have self-confirmation if you are willing to accept the backskatter; and/or perhaps a moderated list?

Or enforce SIZELIM= and/or LANGUAGE= NOHTML etc to cut down on massive postings or virus distributions?


/P