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Subject: Re: How 'bout closing the "anybody can post" hole?
From: dbsmith @ atbbs . com (David B. Smith)
Organization: American Tune BBS
Date: 09 Feb 97 13:08:00 -0500
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
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AO>> Brian J. Murrell wrote:
AO>>
AO>> OK.  In a week I've gotten something like 5 spams via the list-managers
AO>> list.  Mouse-nuts in comparison to the spam I get from other sources, but
AO>> every little bit helps.
AO>>
AO>> Can we change the status of list-managers such that only recipients are
AO>> allowed to post?  Please?

AO>I concur...But, if the list is closed to members only...than a "smart spammer
AO>( an oxymoron ?) can still bother to subscribe to the list
AO>first and than still
AO>send out his spamm as a member of the list :-(
AO> - at least that keeps out the "casual spammer"

AO>I wonder why thur/Fri was bad days for us to receive all those spams...

The other option, of course, is subscription confirmation, which makes
subscription too troublesome for many spammers.

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>> David B. Smith              Email sysop@atbbs.com, dbsmith@izzy.net
>> Sysop, American Tune BBS    "The cure for all the ills of Democracy
>>                             is more Democracy!" -- NY Gov. Al Smith
>>
>> My views are sometimes not even my own, much less anyone else's.
>> My employers don't necessarily speak for me, either, 'natch.



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