Forwarded message:
From:     Self <Single-user mode>
To: Maureen Leblanc <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: hotmail, mailexcite, juno and other "throwaway" accounts
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:05:35 -0500

Maureen wrote, in part..
> Has anyone who is moderating list ever come up against this problem
> of people subbing via throwaway account while posting from another
> name/account?
>
> >1.  Set yourself up a hotmail account (www.hotmail.com) under a
> >dummy name.  Subscribe to HWY61-L.  Use the account for nothing
> >else.  That way you get the digests (or whatever you want).
> >
> >2.  Post to rmd under your own name/normal address.

(and later explained that the problem was with self-moderation)..

In addition to the semi-obvious

   quiet add listname postingaddress
   set listname nomail noreview for postingaddress

you might consider a complete separation of subscription and posting. I
do this for groups of lists or for lists where a significant number of
posts come from local redistributions (newsgroups).

To completely separate posting priviledge from subscriptions, create a
new list.  It will have no postings and only you will add or delete
subscriptions to it.  In your old list, use something like
"Send=Editor,hold" and after making yourself an editor
"Editor=(newlistname)".  Now subscribers can come and go, yet your
posting authorization information remains intact in "newlist".

cheers,
wayne

Wayne T. Smith               mailto:[log in to unmask]
Systems Group -- CAPS        University of Maine System