Jacquelin:
Maybe I am a crochety old coot, but I personally like the idea of
allowing only subscribers being able to post to the list. I believe it
would help establish a responsible community of users. I also believe the
list is a great resource, and you (or whomever) should take whatever steps
can be taken to ensure its continued survival.
Cheers,
David Cross
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, E. Jacquelin Dietz wrote:
> Dear edstat readers,
>
> Did I get your attention? Good, because this is really important. Below is a
> message I received yesterday from the postmaster at NC State regarding the
> edstat list. This is a final notice that the list will be discontinued if
> complaints to the postmaster about spam messages do not stop.
>
> The postmaster has suggested three possible remedies. Moderating the list is
> not a possibility for us. I do not believe that filters for keywords would be
> an effective solution. This leaves us with his first remedy -- to limit
> postings to subscribers. I would rather not do this, but I'm out of ideas. So
> we are going to try this. I realize this is a problem for newsgroup readers
> who do not want to subscribe to edstat. If you find that you cannot post
> messages to the group, one solution might be to subscribe to the digest version
> of the list, and simply delete the one message that you will receive each day.
>
> There are sure to be problems as we implement this. PLEASE send your
> complaints to me, and not to the postmaster! If you value this list at all, I
> beg you not to complain about any aspect of this to the postmaster, or you
> really will kill the list for the rest of us.
>
> Jackie Dietz
> Listowner
>
>
> --- Forwarded mail from XXXXX
>
> We have a problem concerning the edstat-l list that runs on
> jse.stat.ncsu.edu. I've been told that you are the owner of that list
> and can help us resolve it.
>
> For some time now, we have been getting complaints from one of the
> subscribers (YYYYY) of edstat-l for every
> unsolicited bulk email (spam) that goes through the list. Up until
> now, we have been ignoring him. Unfortunately, we have now started
> getting more and more complaints, and from several different people,
> and can no longer put them aside.
>
> So in order to be good net citizens, we must ask you to take
> appropriate action to your list in order to address these complaints
> and stop the flow of spam. Several different ways come to mind:
>
> *) Close your list to accept only mail from subscribers.
> *) Moderate your list, requiring manual intervention before an
> email is sent to the list.
> *) Add filters that require a certain keywords--"statistics" or
> "education" for example--before the email will be sent. Rejected
> mail would come with instructions on how to bypass the filters.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to resolve this issue. If you have
> any questions, please feel free to contact us at XXXXX.
>
> ---End of forwarded mail from XXXXX
>
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> North Carolina State University
> Raleigh, NC 27695-8203 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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