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