A spammer could simply become a list member and then SPAM. They won't care if they are removed once they have perpetrated their abuse.
Tom Veldhouse ve...@visi.com -----Original Message----- From: Mark Murray <m...@grondar.za> To: Jonathan M. Bresler <j...@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: curr...@freebsd.org <curr...@freebsd.org> Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 3:17 PM Subject: Re: SPAM >"Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: >> with volunteers, we could moderate the list(s). mail transfer >> would be slower as we wait for the moderator(s) to approve each piece >> of email. if we use more than one moderator per list, the >> time-sequence of email would be lost....we would get some very >> strange threads...could be enteraining. > >Have you ever considered only allowing list members to post, or are >there difficulties that make this impossible? > >> the amount of spam we get is very little. its easy to delte a >> couple messages. i do not believe it is worthwhile ot moderate the >> lists. > >Do you have any stats of "accepted mail" vs "rejected mail" vs SPAM? > >M >-- >Mark Murray >Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
