On Sun, 30 Jun 1996 20:54:42 EDT Jeff Kell said:
>I've had a flame-fest enter one of my mailing lists (gatewayed to newsgroup
>at the default american.edu gateway) that started as a cross-posting to
>many irrelevant newsgroups.  We don't have a news server on campus (we use
>NNTP to a server at UT-Knoxville) so I can't cancel articles, and I can't
>filter out the postings since they are coming from random From: addresses.
>
>Anyone else been in this spot?  Is there anything I can do?  This is getting
>very annoying and is starting to run off my subscribers.
>
   Jeff, set the gateway address to review...that will kill them from going out
as mail, assuming you indeed screen them when they come to you.  And,
set the list so that postings are from subscribers only.  Those two work
for me.
 
   cyclops
 
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