> I would just like to point out the legal saying that "big cases make bad > law." We're all irritated by one moron's behavior; that's not necessarily > an argument for significant technical or policy changes. By all > indications he's gone, and in any case by the end of the day no fewer than > four distinct solutions to his violations were posted. Is there evidence > that this is a more general problem?
Actually, yes. It's one of the worst cases of a problem. I also get a couple spams a day from the list. We also have the cases of Windows users posting questions to the list because the barrier to post is zero. > Frankly, from my own observation, the more general problem is people who > can't grasp the concept of a listmaster, so send messages with > "unsubscribe" to the list. That seems easily soluble with a simple script. This is true, a script can help. Search for a very short message with "unsubscribe". This is a different type of problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]